On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 09:31:53AM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:01:09 -0400 > Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > > > I need to download a package to install on a machine that is > > currently air-gapped. > > > > I have to download an i386 package for chimaera on an AMD64 beowulf > > machine. > > > > I'll be transferring that package by sneakernet, and then installing > > it using dpkg.. > > If it turns out to have dependencies, I'l have to repeat the process > > for those dependencies. > > > > How do I go about doing the download? > > One "easy access" approach is to use https://pkginfo.devuan.org to > locate the package (deb) concerned, and then download it/them via the > link(s) provided on the package content page(s). That also provides > links for dependencies.
That was easy, once I noticed something. Downloading on my beowulf amd64 machine, that website found me beowulf and64 packages. But it was not difficult to edit the download link to get what I wanted. Thank you. > > If you want to script it, you might use the XML access variation, e.g. Probably not -- the packages I needed to install on my temporarily air-gapped machine were the ones that make wifi work. I'll be uing wifi from now on. > like these for a bash:i386 index of packages, and the content page for > the version 5.0-4 > https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.xml?c=package&q=bash%3Ai386 > https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.xml?c=package&q=bash:i386=5.0-4 > > The XML response is friendlier for scripting. The access URLs are > pretty much the same as for HTML but different. > > Ralph. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
