Andrei POPESCU wrote: >songbird wrote: >> the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i >> normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory >=2E..=20 >> so here is round 1 of the script (which gets 90% of >> the packages back for me from my backup archive at >> /myarchive/debian/jessie).=20 > > A few suggestions: > > - to find packages you might want to use dpkg-query instead of parsing=20 > the output of 'dpkg -l'
hmm, looked at: me@ant(7)~$ dpkg-query -l | egrep "^ii " | wc -l 2377 me@ant(8)~$ dpkg -l | egrep "^ii " | wc -l 2377 me@ant(9)~$ dpkg -l | egrep "^ii " | wc -c 331166 me@ant(10)~$ dpkg-query -l | egrep "^ii " | wc -c 331166 me@ant(11)~$ dpkg-query -l | egrep "^ii " > aa me@ant(12)~$ dpkg -l | egrep "^ii " > bb me@ant(13)~$ diff aa bb no difference between those lists... > - to download the .deb if not available in your backup you could use=20 > something like 'aptitude reinstall --download-only' yes, i am aware of those options if needed, so far i'm just trying to repopulate from the local archive as much as possible before downloading anything again. on this connection it can take quite a while to get some of the larger debs. using debdelta saves me quite a bit sometimes. getting there... :) thanks for your reply, cheers, songbird -- 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/9oon9b-lo1....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de
