Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Why? It might change, and you don't need it. apt-get --print-uris gives you the URI and the filename. Since you have both, you can either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading, or rename things to the correct filename afterwards. In

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-11 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:43:36AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Why? It might change, and you don't need it. apt-get --print-uris gives you the URI and the filename. Since you have both, you can either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading, or rename things to the

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
Perhaps someone can resubmit http://bugs.debian.org/231776 so the strategy behind $ man apt-get --print-uris Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file name on the remote site! can get documented somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps someone can resubmit http://bugs.debian.org/231776 so the strategy behind $ man apt-get --print-uris can get documented somewhere. Why? It might change, and you don't need it. apt-get --print-uris gives you the URI and the filename. Since

saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
Say, apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris makes lines with URL FILE SIZE MD5. What are the bad things that might happen if I just use wget to get the URLs, without using the FILEname? I intend to use dpkg-scanpackages later. Hopefully the URLs are OK on Windows and CDROMs too, which I might need to

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-08 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:36:50AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Say, apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris makes lines with URL FILE SIZE MD5. What are the bad things that might happen if I just use wget to get the URLs, without using the FILEname? I intend to use dpkg-scanpackages later.