Would this do it?
# cd /var/lib/dpkg
# mv status status.tmp
# cat status.tmp | sed '/^Status:/s/installed/not-installed/' > status
# apt-get -d dist-upgrade
# mv status.tmp status
Basically, this fakes apt-get into thinking that none of the packages
that should be installed are installed, then tells apt-get to get every
package in the distribution without installing it (-d means download
only). The .deb files should end up somewhere in /var/cache/apt,
I think.
I didn't actually try this myself, but it looks believable.
Marc
----------
Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unix Specialist
Ban-Koe Systems
9100 W Bloomington Fwy
Bloomington, MN 55431-2200
(612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344
----------
"It's such a fine line between clever and stupid."
-- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap"
>>> "Mark Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/14 12:07 PM >>>
I want to be able to replicate my current Debian installation, by collecting
all of the .deb files that I currently have installed. 'dselect' deleted
all of the .deb's that it installed. I know how to get the names of the
installed packages (dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'), but I can figure out how to
translate that into a filename that I can ftp from debian.org. When I look
in the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, the 'Filename:' field is missing for
all the installed packages. Is there some way to automatically collect all
the .deb's that match my current installation?
Mark.
---
Mark Wright
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
