Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-22 Thread songbird
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: songbird wrote on 07/19/2014 16:23: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: snip Why not copy all files back and order something like apt-get autoclean to get rid of the older packages? it's a rather huge archive (i think about 18000 debs), but yes that would be another way

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-21 Thread songbird
Curt wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: Are you aware of snapshot.debian.org? Save yourself time and anxiety. :) yes aware. no anxiety. I believe he wants to keep things local due to a slow and/or problematic internet connection. right. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:23:15AM -0400, songbird wrote: songbird wrote: the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory and while i do keep a backup of them in another directory it is along with all the previous versions

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-20 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-20, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Are you aware of snapshot.debian.org? Save yourself time and anxiety. :) I believe he wants to keep things local due to a slow and/or problematic internet connection. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-19 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
songbird wrote on 07/18/2014 06:02: the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory and while i do keep a backup of them in another directory it is along with all the previous versions too, so it isn't as easy as just copying them.

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-19 Thread songbird
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: songbird wrote: the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory and while i do keep a backup of them in another directory it is along with all the previous versions too, so it isn't as easy as just copying

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-19 Thread songbird
Andrei POPESCU wrote: songbird wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: songbird wrote: the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory =3D2E..=3D20 so here is round 1 of the script (which gets 90% of the packages back for me from my

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-19 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
songbird wrote on 07/19/2014 16:23: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: snip Why not copy all files back and order something like apt-get autoclean to get rid of the older packages? it's a rather huge archive (i think about 18000 debs), but yes that would be another way of doing it. i think the

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 iul 14, 00:02:43, songbird wrote: the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory ... 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). A

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-18 Thread songbird
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

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 iul 14, 10:49:13, songbird wrote: 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

a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory and while i do keep a backup of them in another directory it is along with all the previous versions too, so it isn't as easy as just copying them. instead i have to figure out which is

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ok, figured the four that are missing and generating null file names are local or obsolete packages that i have installed... that i can work around. new version of script (with some simple changes to make things go faster and to make it more flexible for other uses): =

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ... and the next version, which gets me down to 61 missing files. it is getting late so i'll have to take another look at this again later... = #!/bin/sh # # debarch=/archives/debian/jessie dest=/var/cache/apt/archives pkglist=`dpkg -l | egrep '^ii ' | cut