* Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011120 12:17]:
> On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 11:56, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> > I'd like to download a selection of packages for machine A that
> > is on a slow connection. So I made a list of what I want and
> > went to machine B, which has a fast connection, and used "apt-get
> > --download-only install package". This didn't work for packages
> > that are already installed on machine B because apt-get saw them
> > as already up-to-date.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me if there is a way to force apt-get (or any
> > other tool) to download a package regardless of it's status on
> > the machine from which it is being downloaded? I could do this
> > easily with wget if I knew a way to automatically find the url
> > for a package, based on my sources.list. Any ideas on that?
>
> Perhaps you could try this:
>
> export yourpackages="yadda yadda"
>
> apt-get install $yourpackages --print-uris -y --reinstall |tail +5|awk
> '{print $1}' >aptfile
>
> wget -i aptfile
>
> I've built this on the fly with some debugging, let me know if you have
> problems with it. I'm having a bit of trouble getting sed to strip off
> the single quotes due my inexperience with regexps on the command line
> and what needs to be escaped from bash etc. I've totally confused
> myself so I went with the file way, wget seems to understand the single
> quotes.
>
> sed -e "s/'\$//"|sed -e "s/'//" Strips them both off, but the last
> version of the sed command only strips the first ' off and trying to
> combine them isn't working for me with (|) syntax. Maybe a regexp or
> sed guru could give me a pointer.
IANAG, but I can give a few pointers. At a shell prompt, you can remove
the single quotes from stdin in this situation in a couple of ways:
| sed -e "s/'\(.*\)'/\1/"
That removes the ticks from the first single-quoted expression in a
line. Simpler still (to just remove any ticks):
| tr -d "'"
for your particular case, though, to just avoid having to use a temp
file, and given that it doesn't complain about getting single quotes
anyway, just tell wget to read from stdin by specifying - as its input
file:
apt-get install $yourpackages --print-uris -y --reinstall | tail +5 |
awk '{print $1} | wget -i -
good times,
Vineet
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