Celejar <[email protected]> writes: >Cameron Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >and then have the gateway box get those packages. >> >> hmmm. How? Is there an existing tool that will do this? Doing it >> manually (in a script) would require too much work (essentially >> implementing apt-get -d dist-upgrade against a specified package index >> and package list). >How about using 'aptitude download', possibly feeding the package list >to aptitude with xargs? The 'download' action downloads to the current >directory, so I suppose that you'd use a temp directory, and that would >have the side effect of getting a copy stored by the cacher. The problem is the the dpkg architecture (and distribution) of the host is different to the targets. 'aptitude download' is going to use the native dpkg architecture, and is going to look in /etc/apt/sources.list for the sources to use. It looks like it may be possible to use something like 'aptitude extract-cache-subset' on the targets and set Apt::Architecture to the target on the command line. apt.conf(5) has a number of details of how I can override most of the host environment. Hmmm, I can see how this might work now. * periodically run aptitude extract-cache-subset on the targets and send that to the host * every night on the host, run 'aptitude -d dist-upgrade', but overriding all the directories for configs, indexes, pkgstates, etc and architecture to point to what has been captured by extract-cache-subset. Also point aptitude to the local apt-cacher-ng proxy so all downloads go through it. * delete the downloaded files, since apt-cacher-ng has already cached them. Thanks for the ideas. Perhaps I can knock this up fairly easily. I'll certainly learn more about apt than I probably want to :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
