A KISS version using wget/dget: #!/bin/bash
#Check invocation if [ -z "$1" ]; then name=`basename $0` echo "Usage: $name <package> [suite]" echo "Download given Debian source package from Debian archive" exit 1 fi; #Escapes any + sign in the package name arg_uri=`echo "$1" | sed -n 's/\+/%2b/p'` if [ -z "$arg_uri" ]; then arg_uri="$1" fi; #Set suite to unstable unless given #(most probably its worth checking if given suite is valid too) suite="$2" if [ -z "$suite" ]; then echo "Using the unstable suite" suite="unstable" fi; #Retrieve version version=`wget -q -O - "http://qa.debian.org/madison.php?package=$arg_uri&a=source&c=&s=$suite&text=on"; | sed -n "/source/s/\s*$1\s|\s*\(\S*\)\s|.*/\1/p"` #If package do not exist in given suite, exit with error if [ -z "$version" ]; then echo "Either the source package doesn't exist, or its not in the given suite" exit 1 fi; #dget it! first=`echo $1 | cut -c 1` dget "http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/$first/$1/$1_$version.dsc"; exit 0 Instead of ftp.debian.org one can use his preferred mirror of course. -- [wishlist] please add pull-debian-source script https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289141 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
