Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Hi Doug, Try apt-get --print-uris -y dselect-upgrade >PACKAGES Take that file to your work machine and do a for i in `awk http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard/mars_index.html Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) Amazon.com: One-Click Patent - One-Cl

Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread David Karlin
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:16:52AM +0200, Douglas Eck wrote: > Can I ask dselect (or dpkg) to generate a file list of > required files and then use that file list to > download the 70Mb at work, where we're on a fast connection? dpkg has options called "get-selections" and "set-selections" which

Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, I'm new to the dselect/apt-get/... tools, (I just got Debian 2.2 installed last night and have not had time yet to play with/learn these new tools). I'm guessing that the output of 'apt-get -s' is a simple list of file names (no extras, like size, in additional columns). If so, the following

Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Tal Danzig
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:55:09 +0200, Alessandro Ghigi said: [snip] > > #!/bin/bash > > > apt-get -d install 1st new package to install > > . this for all such packages > > apt-get -d upgrade 1st old package to be upgraded > >

Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
Is it also possible to feed that generated list back into apt-get on my work linux box so that the packages can be automatically downloaded to disk for burning on CD-ROM (but *not* installed on the work Linux box? What Tal says apt-get -d install [files] will download, but not inst

Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:04:34 +0200, Douglas Eck said: [snip] > > Thanks Alessandro. > > Is it also possible to feed that generated list back into apt-get on > my work linux box so that the packages can be automatically > downloaded to disk for burning on CD-ROM (but *not* install

Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Douglas Eck
Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > May be you should try with > > apt-get -s dselect-upgrade. > > This should list both the new packages to be installed from scratch and the > ones that need to be upgraded > (together with the promise of configuring all > of them). Thanks Alessandro. Is it also po

Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
May be you should try with apt-get -s dselect-upgrade. This should list both the new packages to be installed from scratch and the ones that need to be upgraded (together with the promise of configuring all of them). Bye Alessandro I ran dselect on my home box last night and it wanted

Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Douglas Eck
I ran dselect on my home box last night and it wanted to download 70Mb of files. This is ok given that I've been using potato for a while without downloading. Can I ask dselect (or dpkg) to generate a file list of required files and then use that file list to download the 70Mb at work, where we're