On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:43:31PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm trying to get a Debian machine (A) updated via CDROM from
> another up-to-date sarge machine (B) that is connected to the
> Internet. Essentially I want to download all the .debs that are
> currently installed on B into a mirror (on B), then burn that
> onto a CDROM, carry it to A and install it.
>
> I though that "apt-move sync" is my freind. From the manpage:
>
> sync Similar to the mirror function, but
> only gets the packages that are cur-
> rently installed on your system. It
> uses dpkg(8) --get-selections to find
> out what files to download. It will
> skip any files that match one of the
> patterns in the $LOCALDIR/.exclude
> file (if it exists). sync will get
> the latest versions of the packages,
> regardless of the version currently
> installed on your system (think about
> it).
>
> OK, so I run apt-sync. It does something, but it only downloads
> about 200 packages when in fact I have more than 800 installed:
>
> kir:/home/dh/download/debian# find . -name "*.deb" | wc -l
> 203
>
> kir:/home/dh/download/debian# grep ^Status:\ install /var/lib/dpkg/status | wc -l
> 858
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help
> --Daniel
Hi Daniel,
try these and see if you can interpret these results better.
dpkg -l|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq -c
grep "Status" /var/lib/dpkg/status|sort |uniq -c
HTH
-Kev
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