I got this reply off-list: On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 12:40, Thomas Bleicher wrote: > However, I'm in the same situation and I wrote a small python-script to > split the file with all the needed packages for an upgrade into > zip-sized wget-scripts (and show me some statistics I'm interestet in). > > I do: > > apt-get -qq --print-uris [upgrade | install <something>] > urls > > and then run my script on the file urls. > > When I come back with the filled zips, i just copy all the downloaded > files to /var/cache/apt/archives/. Then I can run "apt-get upgrade" and > when the archive is scanned, all packages are found and installed, > provided all have been downloaded successfully. If not, apt tells me > what is still missing and I can start again ;)
This is what I did in the end without the Python script. I didn't want to copy 200 meg of debs into archives/ and as the option to specify the archive directory didn't work for me, I tried symlinking the entire directory of downloaded debs into the archives. That also didn't work. :-( In the end I had to copy it but I'd prefer to have a directory on my spare disk which Apt used as the cache. Thomas, could you email me that script? It sounds like what I want to do, especially if I could get Dir::Cache::archive working. Regards, Ross Burton
