Re: Downloading packages with AptPkg (libapt-pkg-perl)
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Neil Williams wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:18 +0200, Mark de Vries wrote: [ I'm not subscribed to the list, will look at archives, but if you ] [ can please cc me in replies. Thanks ] Hi, I'm trying to use libapt-pkg-perl to [log story short] and then download the packages but I can't find a way to get the actual URI to download the .deb files. Take a look at the source of libcache-apt-perl - which provides an Object-Oriented interface to the apt bindings and the source of apt-cross which parses the URL out of the apt data. Thanks, I took a look and it looks like it does magic simmilar to what I've already been resorting too. I was still hoping there would be a more direct way, like for the source packages. Cheers, Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Downloading packages with AptPkg (libapt-pkg-perl)
[ I'm not subscribed to the list, will look at archives, but if you ] [ can please cc me in replies. Thanks ] Hi, I'm trying to use libapt-pkg-perl to [log story short] and then download the packages but I can't find a way to get the actual URI to download the .deb files. The closest I've come is to try to parse/match values from an AptPkg::Cache::PkgFile object and AptPkg::PkgRecords-lookup() results into a URI but this seems like a big hack. In contrast it's trivial to get URI to the .dsc, orig.tar.gz, diff.gz files using AptPkg::Source. Why is there no such thing for binary (.deb) files? What would be the best way (using as little as possible besides AptPkg) to get the URI to download a .deb? Cheers, Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Downloading packages with AptPkg (libapt-pkg-perl)
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:18 +0200, Mark de Vries wrote: [ I'm not subscribed to the list, will look at archives, but if you ] [ can please cc me in replies. Thanks ] Hi, I'm trying to use libapt-pkg-perl to [log story short] and then download the packages but I can't find a way to get the actual URI to download the .deb files. Take a look at the source of libcache-apt-perl - which provides an Object-Oriented interface to the apt bindings and the source of apt-cross which parses the URL out of the apt data. That code is based on NorthernCross, developed for embedded usage. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
