Hi, On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 11:55:01PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > What you did is one way ;-) > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 03:27:25PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: ... > > pattern specified with -A. Maybe there is a more efficient way to do this? > > Most wgetfiles are downloading the latest unstable binary packages. > Why re-invent the binary package downloader when we have "apt-get"? > > apt-get has -C option to use non-standard /etc/apt/sources.list > listing unstable distribution: > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free > > We need to use non-standard directories and not to contaminate the > system ones: > /var/cache/apt/archives/ > /var/lib/apt/lists/ > > This can be done by setting through > Item: Dir::Cache::Archives > Item: Dir::State::Lists > specified via -o option. > > By setting all these and few more options as needed, we should be > able to download the latest binary package from the archive using the > proven tool.
Just to be clear, I was thinking to do the following to get the latest binary package in the previous post: apt-get update apt-get -d install $PACKAGENAME Then go to redirected /var/cache/apt/archives/ location to pick up the latest package. This is just an outline. There may needs to do few more chores to get this working. > Of course, obsolete dpkg-doc from snapshot should use original wgetfiles > > Installation guide: I need to check how it should be handled. > > What do you think? > > Regards, > > Osamu >
