Re: apt-offline
Hello Paul, On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 13:36 -0400, Paul Thomas wrote: > Hello, > > I see that apt-offline is not part of buster. Is there any plan to > add it? > It is currently out of Buster (and Debian Testing) because of bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871656 I have hoped to have it fixed but other real life things have since taken a higher priority. I had also hoped that maybe other apt-offline users would come up with a patch but that didn't happen. So this will have to wait until I get some free time. > thanks, > Paul -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: apt-offline
Hi, > > I see that apt-offline is not part of buster. Is there any plan to add it? > > Only the maintainer would know about that. It is unlikely he reads this > list. https://bugs.debian.org/871656 is what keeps apt-offline out of testing and thus stable. Alex
Re: apt-offline
On Thu 12 Sep 2019 at 13:36:35 -0400, Paul Thomas wrote: > Hello, > > I see that apt-offline is not part of buster. Is there any plan to add it? Only the maintainer would know about that. It is unlikely he reads this list. -- Brian.
apt-offline
Hello, I see that apt-offline is not part of buster. Is there any plan to add it? thanks, Paul
Re: [ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.8.0 Released
Sounds great! I'll put it in the stuff list to try out. El 21 may. 2017 22:31, "Ritesh Raj Sarraf" escribió: > Hello World, > > It gives me immense pleasure to announce the release of apt-offline, > version 1.8.0 > > For a detailed release announcement, please visit: > https://www.researchut.com/blog/apt-offline-180 > > > This release is a major update, porting apt-offline to Python3 and Py3Qt5. > > > -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs > Debian - The Universal Operating System
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.8.0 Released
Hello World, It gives me immense pleasure to announce the release of apt-offline, version 1.8.0 For a detailed release announcement, please visit: https://www.researchut.com/blog/apt-offline-180 This release is a major update, porting apt-offline to Python3 and Py3Qt5. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.7.2 Released
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[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.7.1 Released
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It gives me immense pleasure to announce the release of apt-offline,
version 1.7.1
For a detailed release announcement, please visit:
https://www.researchut.com/blog/apt-offline-171
This release includes many bug fixes, code cleanups and better integration.
* Integration with PolicyKit
* Better integration with apt gpg keyring
* Resilient to failures when a sub-task errors out
* New Feature: Changelog
This release adds the ability to deal with package changelogs ('set' command
option: --generate-changelog) based on what is installed, extract changelog
(Currently support with python-apt only) from downloaded packages and display
them during installation ('install' command opiton: --skip-changelog, if you
want to skip display of changelog)
* New Option: --apt-backend
Users can now opt to choose an apt backend of their choice. Currently
supports: apt, apt-get (default) and python-apt
Hopefully, there will be one more release, before the release of Stretch.
The release details and other details about bug fixes is available in
the git repository and the announcement page above. Packages for Debian should
be available soon.
- --
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[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.7 Released
Hello World, It gives me immense pleasure to announce the release of apt-offline, version 1.7. For a detailed release announcement, please visit: http://www.researchu t.com/blog/apt-offline-17 This is an important release with an important Security Fix. Thanks to Bernd Dietzel. The release details and other details about bug fixes is available in the git repository and the homepage. Packages for Debian should be available by now. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: apt-offline usage
From: franc...@avalenn.eu Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:55:01 +0200 > isolated$ apt-offline set --update ... > networked$ apt-offline get ... > isolated$ apt-offline install > isolated$ apt-offline set --upgrade ... > networked$ apt-offline get ... > isolated$ apt-offline install ... > isolated$ apt-get upgrade Appears OK until apt-get upgrade. For example; root@joule:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. root@joule:/# dpkg -l openssl Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==---= ii openssl1.0.1e-2+deb i386 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary Whereas a newer deb file certainly is available locally. root@joule:/# ls /var/cache/apt/archives/open* /var/cache/apt/archives/openssl_1.0.1k-3_i386.deb I've found no mention of sources in any apt-offline documentation. For "apt-offline set ..." and "apt-offline get ..." sources.list should refer to a networked source. For "apt-offline install ..." sources.list should refer to the local files in isolated:/var/cache/apt/archives/. No mention of this in the manual. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 http://easthope.ca/peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/E1YjgR2-Np-DN@armada
Re: apt-offline usage
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 11:29:35AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: franc...@avalenn.eu
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:40:25 +0100
> > If I remember correctly but this is from memory from 3 or 4 years ago
> > it is possible to need two round-trip between networked and isolated
> > server :
> >
> > isolated$ apt-offline set --update ...
> > networked$ apt-offline get ...
> > isolated$ apt-offline install
> > isolated$ apt-offline set --install $package ...
> > networked$ apt-offline get ...
> > isolated$ apt-offline install ...
> > isolated$ apt-get install $package
>
> That installs $package with no difficulty. Good! Thanks!
>
> My understanding is that "apt-offline install .bundle"
> upgrades the cache of data needed for the upgrade but doesn't
> perform the upgrade.
apt-offline updates only the list of existing packages (cf. eg.
/var/lib/apt/lists) and the specific packages asked for with
"--install".
> "apt-get install " upgrades a specific package.
> To upgrade all packages available from the bundle I tried "apt-get install
> *".
> * is expanded to files and directories in the current directory.
> Definitely not the intention.
>
> "apt-get upgrade" attempts to access network sources
> which also is not the intention. How is an upgrade
> from the local cache invoked?
apt-get upgrade probably tries to get the packages themselves which it
knows from the package list but which apt-offline did not take.
It seems apt-offline has a specific option for full upgrades.
>From the man page :
--upgrade Generate APT Database signature for package upgrade. This is
the equivalent of using apt-get upgrade
So for upgrades potentially doing something like the following could
work :
isolated$ apt-offline set --update ...
networked$ apt-offline get ...
isolated$ apt-offline install
isolated$ apt-offline set --upgrade ...
networked$ apt-offline get ...
isolated$ apt-offline install ...
isolated$ apt-get upgrade
F.
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Re: apt-offline usage
From: franc...@avalenn.eu Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:40:25 +0100 > If I remember correctly but this is from memory from 3 or 4 years ago > it is possible to need two round-trip between networked and isolated > server : > > isolated$ apt-offline set --update ... > networked$ apt-offline get ... > isolated$ apt-offline install > isolated$ apt-offline set --install $package ... > networked$ apt-offline get ... > isolated$ apt-offline install ... > isolated$ apt-get install $package That installs $package with no difficulty. Good! Thanks! My understanding is that "apt-offline install .bundle" upgrades the cache of data needed for the upgrade but doesn't perform the upgrade. "apt-get install " upgrades a specific package. To upgrade all packages available from the bundle I tried "apt-get install *". * is expanded to files and directories in the current directory. Definitely not the intention. "apt-get upgrade" attempts to access network sources which also is not the intention. How is an upgrade from the local cache invoked? Thanks, ... P. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/E1Ydjrz-Qk-EE@armada
Re: apt-offline usage
* From: franc...@avalenn.eu * Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:40:25 +0100 > isolated$ apt-offline set --install-packages $package > networked$ apt-offline get ... > isolated$ apt-offline install ... > isolated$ apt-get install $package Yes; that works. Thanks! An optimistic reader might take "man apt-offline" to mean that "apt-offline install" will install the package. The example could include "apt-get install". Thanks again, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/E1YY2LH-MZ-4N@armada
Re: apt-offline usage
* From: franc...@avalenn.eu * Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 13:40:25 +0100 > isolated$ apt-offline set --install-packages $package > networked$ apt-offline get ... > isolated$ apt-offline install ... > isolated$ apt-get install $package That works. Thanks! An optimistic reader might take "man apt-offline" to mean that "apt-offline install" will install the package. The example should include the "apt-get install". Thanks again, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/E1YY2RD-Mi-6Z@armada
Re: apt-offline usage
Hello, On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 09:31:32PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Has anyone had any luck using apt-offline to install a package? > Any tips? If I make no mistake you need to use apt-get for installing the package after retrieving the bundle. The workflow would then be like : isolated$ apt-offline set --install $package ... networked$ apt-offline get ... isolated$ apt-offline install ... isolated$ apt-get install $package ... If I remember correctly but this is from memory from 3 or 4 years ago it is possible to need two round-trip between networked and isolated server : isolated$ apt-offline set --update ... networked$ apt-offline get ... isolated$ apt-offline install isolated$ apt-offline set --install $package ... networked$ apt-offline get ... isolated$ apt-offline install ... isolated$ apt-get install $package François -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150309124025.ga6...@fjo-extia-hpdeb.nsn-net.net
Re: apt-offline usage
From: Chris Bannister Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 01:36:50 +1300 > If you are only going to install one package, why not just > download the deb file and use dpkg to install it? When apt-offline is being used to update a system and an additional package is needed, "--install" is efficacious. Also, apt-offline claims to solve dependancies automatically. peter@armada:~$ man apt-offline | grep depend based system. It can be used to download packages and its dependencies > The tip I can offer is follow the directions. See above. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/E1YTv4C-LA-QK@armada
apt-offline usage
On isolated machine, joule. peter@joule:~$ apt-offline set aptoffline.joule.sig --verbose --update \ > --install-packages rsync On networked machine, armada. peter@armada:~$ apt-offline get aptoffline.joule.sig --verbose \ > --bundle aptoffline.joule.bundle On joule again. peter@joule:~$ apt-offline install aptoffline.joule.bundle --verbose \ > --allow-unauthenticated ... peter@joule:~$ which rsync peter@joule:~$ Has anyone had any luck using apt-offline to install a package? Any tips? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/E1YTkrE-MV-Fp@armada
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.5
I am very pleased to announce the release of apt-offline, version 1.5. In version 1.4, the offline bug report functionality had to be dropped. In version 1.5, it is back again. apt-offline now uses the new Debian native BTS library. Thanks to its developers, this library is much more slim and neat. The only catch is that it depends on the SOAPpy library which currently is not stock in Python. If you run apt-offline of Debian, you may not have to worry as I will add a Recommends on that package. For users using it on Microsoft Windows, please ensure that you have the SOAPpy library installed. It is available on pypi. The old bundled magic library has been replaced with the version of python magic library that Debian ships. This library is derived from the file package and is portable on almost all Unixes. For Debian users, there will be a Recommends on it too. There were also a bunch of old, outstanding, and annoying bugs that have been fixed in this release. For a full list of changes, please refer to the git logs. With this release, apt-offline should be in good shape for the Jessie release. apt-offline is available on Alioth @ https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ rrs@learner:~/devel/apt-offline/apt-offline (master)$ axi-cache show apt-offline Package: apt-offline Description-en: offline APT package manager apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager. . apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to APT. . apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no network). This signature contains all download information required for the APT database system. This signature file can be used on another machine connected to the internet (which need not be a Debian box and can even be running windows) to download the updates. The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by APT and this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine. . apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available offline. Description-md5: 7487fa218999d3466bc1f427d657de2f -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54172f5c.1090...@debian.org
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline - 1.0 Released
Hello World. I am very pleased to announce apt-offline, version 1.0. This release, with it, adds a Graphical User Interace to apt-offline. Big thanks to Abhishek Mishra and Manish Sinha who did all the development work to make this GUI happen. Apart from the GUI, there are a bunch of bug fixes in this release. Some more details with screenshots can be seen at [4] What is apt-offline ? apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager . apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to apt . apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no network). This signature contains all download information required for the apt database system. This signature file can be used on another machine connected to the internet (which need not be a Debian box and can even be running windows) to download the updates. The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by apt and this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine. . apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available offline apt-offline is available at [2] and the latest 1.0 release can be downloaded here [3] [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=apt-offline/apt-offline.git [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [3] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1613 [4] http://www.researchut.com/blog/archive/2010/11/08/apt-offline-10 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.9 released
Hello World, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.9 Release Highlights * Minor Bug Fix and Feature Release Please see the git log for full details[1]. . What is apt-offline ? apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager . apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to apt . apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no network). This signature contains all download information required for the apt database system. This signature file can be used on another machine connected to the internet (which need not be a Debian box and can even be running windows) to download the updates. The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by apt and this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine. . apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available offline apt-offline is available at [2] and the latest 0.9.9 release can be downloaded here [3] [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=apt-offline/apt-offline.git [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [3] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1526 Cheers! -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.8 released
Hello World, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.8 Release Highlights * Minor Bug Fixes Please see the git log for full details[1]. . What is apt-offline ? apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager . apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to apt . apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no network). This signature contains all download information required for the apt database system. This signature file can be used on another machine connected to the internet (which need not be a Debian box and can even be running windows) to download the updates. The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by apt and this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine. . apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available offline apt-offline is available at [2] and the latest 0.9.8 release can be downloaded here [3] [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=apt-offline/apt-offline.git [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [3] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1510 Cheers! -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.7 released
Hello World, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.7. Release Highlights * Major bug fixes Please see the git log for full details[1]. . What is apt-offline ? apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager . apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to apt . apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no network). This signature contains all download information required for the apt database system. This signature file can be used on another machine connected to the internet (which need not be a Debian box and can even be running windows) to download the updates. The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by apt and this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine. . apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available offline apt-offline is available at [2] and the latest 0.9.7 release can be downloaded here [3] [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=apt-offline/apt-offline.git [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [3] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1487 Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.6 released
#include * Ritesh Raj Sarraf [Tue, Dec 22 2009, 01:24:13PM]: > I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.6. Wait a second, unless I am mistaken it's an implementation of the traditional "Using APT Offline" howto from Jason Gunthorpe, this time with additional requirement of Python. If yes, maybe you should tell this upfront? > Please see the git log for full details. Where is it? > apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager for APT based systems, i.e. > mostly > Debian and Debian derived distributions. And what does "managing the packages" mean in this context? Maybe you mean: download manager for package files? > apt-offline can fully update/upgrade your disconnected Debian box without the > need of connecting it to the network. > > * It works by generating a signature of the disconnected box. Is that a signature? A signature is something short you write down with a pen for identification purposes, basically equivalent to a short checksum in data processing. AFAICS what you use is a plain flat database, i.e. an URL list generated by apt. > * You carry the signature to a net connected box running anything > (Windows/Linux/Mac) And the system requirements on that net connected box are... what? That's an important detail, IMHO. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.6 released
Hello World, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.6. Release Highlights * Major bug fixes Please see the git log for full details. . apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager for APT based systems, i.e. mostly Debian and Debian derived distributions. apt-offline can fully update/upgrade your disconnected Debian box without the need of connecting it to the network. * It works by generating a signature of the disconnected box. * You carry the signature to a net connected box running anything (Windows/Linux/Mac) * apt-offline downloads all data as per the signature. This includes apt database, packages, bug reports. The data can be bundled to a single file to carry it easily on a USB stick * The bundle file is all that is needed on the disconnected Debian box. Apt on this box will feel like everything was downloaded the traditional (apt-get update/upgrade) way. apt-offline is available at [1] and the latest 0.9.6 release can be downloaded here [2] [1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [2] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1450 Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.4 released
Dear Debian Users, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.4. Release Highlights * Finished up most packaging work for Debian * Fixed a bug in offline bug report handling when using a folder as the install argument apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager for APT based systems, i.e. mostly Debian and Debian derived distributions. apt-offline can fully update/upgrade your disconnected Debian box without the need of connecting it to the network. * It works by generating a signature of the disconnected box. * You carry the signature to a net connected box running anything (Windows/Linux/Mac) * apt-offline downloads all data as per the signature. This includes apt database, packages, bug reports. The data can be bundled to a single file to carry it easily on a USB stick * The bundle file is all that is needed on the disconnected Debian box. Apt on this box will feel like everything was downloaded the traditional (apt-get update/upgrade) way. apt-offline is available at [1] and the latest 0.9.4 release can be downloaded here [2] [1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [2] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1420 PS: apt-offline is currently in the NEW queue and will soon be part of Debian. Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.3 released
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote at 2009-10-06 04:07 -0500: > apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager for APT based systems, i.e. > mostly > Debian and Debian derived distributions. > apt-offline can fully update/upgrade your disconnected Debian box without the > need of connecting it to the network. It sounds like apt-offline is the solution I needed several years ago when I was trying to upgrade a disconnected Debian system. I found then that I needed to make at least 2 trips to a connected system (once for lists, then for newer packages). I will keep apt-offline in mind for the future, and hope that it makes its way into the Debian main archive. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.3 released
Dear Debian Users, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.3. Release Highlights * Add support for GPG signatures in apt a.k.a apt/secure * Other minor fixes apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager for APT based systems, i.e. mostly Debian and Debian derived distributions. apt-offline can fully update/upgrade your disconnected Debian box without the need of connecting it to the network. * It works by generating a signature of the disconnected box. * You carry the signature to a net connected box running anything (Windows/Linux/Mac) * apt-offline downloads all data as per the signature. This includes apt database, packages, bug reports. The data can be bundled to a single file to carry it easily on a USB stick * The bundle file is all that is needed on the disconnected Debian box. Apt on this box will feel like everything was downloaded the traditional (apt-get update/upgrade) way. apt-offline is available at [1] and the latest 0.9.3 release can be downloaded here [2] [1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/ [2] https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100399&release_id=1418 Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.0 released
Dear Debian Users, I'm pleased to announce the new and first release for apt-offline, at version 0.9.0. (apt-offline was previously named pypt-offline) apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager for APT based systems, i.e. mostly Debian and Debian derived distributions. apt-offline can fully update/upgrade your disconnected Debian box without the need of connecting it to the network. * It works by generating a signature of the disconnected box. * You carry the signature to a net connected box running anything (Windows/Linux/Mac) * apt-offline downloads all data as per the signature. This includes apt database, packages, bug reports. The data can be bundled to a single file to carry it easily on a USB stick * The bundle file is all that is needed on the disconnected Debian box. Apt on this box will feel like everything was downloaded the traditional (apt-get update/upgrade) way. While I'm working toward getting it packaged and included into Debian, I am looking for users who could test and provide feedback. I'm more keen on feedback on the interface and options/arguments you'd like to see. apt-offline is currently being tailored at [1] and the 0.9.0 release is available for testing at [2] [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rrs-guest/apt-offline.git;a=summary [2] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rrs-guest/apt- offline.git;a=snapshot;h=03d8e4d628ce2eaa859d371f95f11ad56bb434b7;sf=tgz PS: If possible, please CC me when replying. I'm not religiously following the d-u list. Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
apt-offline
I can now compute what packages a low bandwidth computer needs, right there on the high bandwidth computer. This surpasses some of the capabilities of apt-zip and apt-rsync. http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-offline/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-offline Question
Hi All
The terminal reads
---
Elshaddai:/apt-offline# export APT_CONFIG="/apt-offline/apt.conf"
Elshaddai:/apt-offline# apt-get -d install dwarfs-debian-guide
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package dwarfs-debian-guide
Elshaddai:/apt-offline# ls -l
/mirrors/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-all/doc/dwarfs-debian-guide_2.2.96-
1.deb
-rw-r--r--1 root root 1521104 May 9 2001
/mirrors/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-all/doc/dwarfs-debian-guide_2.2.96-
1.deb
Elshaddai:/apt-offline#
--------
---
/apt-offline/apt.conf reads
---
APT
{
/* This is not necessary if the two machines are the same arch, it tells
the remote APT what architecture the Debian machine is */
Architecture "i386";
Get::Download-Only "true";
};
Dir
{
/* Use the disc for state information and redirect the status file from
the /var/lib/dpkg default */
State "/apt-offline/";
State::status "status";
// Binary caches will be stored locally
Cache::archives "/apt-offline/archives/";
Cache "/tmp/";
// Location of the source list.
Etc "/apt-offline/";
};
----
---
/apt-offline/sources.list reads
---
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
deb file:/mirrors/debian stable contrib main non-free non-us
# deb cdrom:[Advanced Linux Pocketbook CD 3 - _Potato Updates_]/ potato
updates/
main
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2
(20001207
)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1
(20001207
)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
# deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free
# deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
non-free
# deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib
non-
free
Why isn't dwarfs-debian-guide being found?
TIA
Cheers Stephen Grant Brown
RE: Using apt offline
From: Pichai Asokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have done precisely this. That's good to know. Looks like I may have guessed right... > However, I ran the apt-get update on all the machines. I do not know > exactly how to duplicate that on other machines. I'm guessing that I copy /var/state/apt/ Paul.
Re: Using apt offline
Moore, Paul said: > The only difficulty I have is with step (2) - is it enough to transfer the > /var/cache/apt/archives directory? If not, what is the best way? Almost, but not quite. I share /var/cache/apt over NFS here and it works, provided that I do an apt-get update on each machine. If you can find where the list of available packages is stored and copy that also, though, you should be set. -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
RE: Using apt offline
From: Christian Surchi > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > > > 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine > > 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines > > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. > > try apt-zip! That seems to work based on dselect. I want to do an apt-get dist-upgrade, which AFAIK dselect can't do... Actually, another issue is that I won't have access to the ftp/http sources on the non-networked machines - how will apt on those machines "know" what it should do - do I need to copy some other parts of the /var/.../apt stuff? Paul.
Re: Using apt offline
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine > 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. try apt-zip! bye Christian
Using apt offline
Hi, I have a small number of machines which are currently running slink. I'd like to upgrade them, at least to frozen and possibly even to woody. The simple answer is apt-get (dist-)upgrade. However, there are a couple of issues with this. First, I pay for internet downloads, so I want to minimise download time, and second, at least one of the machines is not connected to the internet. The machines' configurations are pretty much identical, so I would like to download the necessary files *once* and upgrade all the machines offline. The problem is knowing how to get apt to work this way. I think that what I could do is 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. The only difficulty I have is with step (2) - is it enough to transfer the /var/cache/apt/archives directory? If not, what is the best way? More generally, what is the best way for me to keep a number of machines reasonably up to date, given 1. The only CDs I can get are slink (2.1r4) until potato hits the UK CD market. 2. I have limited network bandwidth. 3. The network bandwidth costs money. Thanks in advance, Paul Moore.
