Package: apt-zip
Version: 0.15
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
I emailed to suggest this as a wishlist item, and had no response as yet, so
I've had a go myself.
If the networked machine is a Debian computer it may already have many of the
packages needed for the
un-networked machine in it's apt cache. This patch checks to see, and if found
copies them to the apt-zip
medium. If they're not there it downloads them as before. I'm not a scripting
expert, so please change if
necessary, but it works for me:
Change the getfile() section to:
getfile(){
( [ -r ../$2 ] && check ../$2 $4 $? && echo "$2 already
downloaded.") ||
(( [ -r /var/cache/apt/archives/$2 ] && check
/var/cache/apt/archives/$2 $4 $? && echo "$2
already in Debian package cache$
(echo "Downloading $2 from the network..." && do_wget $1 $2 $3 $4 &&
mv $2 ../))
}
This patch can save a lot of time downloading duplicate packages. Packages are
md5sum checked as before.
Thanks
Arthur
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages apt-zip depends on:
ii apt 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
apt-zip recommends no packages.
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