Have you checked over the internet (or this list's logs) ? >From what I understand, there are many available already.
Debian => pypt-offline (http://pypt-offline.sf.net) Fedora => Opium (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/Opyum) Any other distro?? SLES ?? For pypt-offline, you get Offline Bug Report functionality also (just for Debian. You can make it work for Ubuntu, maybe.) Have you already started working on it ? If not, I'd suggest you have a look at the ones listed above and help extend them. For pypt-offline, if you need any help, feel free to contact me off-list. Ritesh manish modi wrote: > Announcement > We(me manish,jitendra,suraj) are working for the development of a program. > > Actually one the common problem here in the Nepal is linux users face the > difficulty to get the packages of any application with all its dependecies > because they dont have internet on their PC. > > In the absence of packaging tool like apt and yum its really tough to get > any packages into computer > Its tedious if somebody opt for going cyber cafe or frens computer & > download/copy the application along with its all dependencies and > recursive dependencies too. > Infact it has become very difficult for one to have the linux without > internet. > > Apart from this updating the packages without internet is very difficult > but with internet too its really difficult because hundreds of Mbs need to > be downloaded so unless we have fast internet we enjoy the packages > without update. > > So we guys trying to solve these problems > > Overview of our application > > We will have machine one like ATM > > We will have three outlets from machine > > 1. For usb(pen drive,flask disk) > 2. For CD/DVD > 3. One for mouse(there wont be keyboard) > > We will be maintaining the repository of the linux distribution which > will be updated their repositories available(gutsy,fiesty,debian) & Free > and open source softare for windows. > > User can search the packages he/she needs & our program will calculate all > the dependencies(for linux),make repo of all the packages selected and > allow them to copy it to usb disks(pen drives,flash disks) or cd/dvd. > > Now user can copy the repo in their hard disk & there will be install > script which will modify sources.list file,so that the packages can easily > be installed from synaptic/apt-get/aptitude whenever needed without > internet. > > We had a dicussion on this last saturday with Subir dai,Basanta > dai,Ankur,Jwalanta,Shishir,Rajeev,Bibek,Dhruba,Yogesh. > We are yet to decide the name for this application > We had few we want you to vote which one will be better > 1.ATR (Any time repo) > 2.Software Dhukuti > 3.EPM Easy Package Manager > 4.YAP Yet Another Packager > 5.EPT easy package tool > > and if another any name you think is appropriate then you are free to > suggest > -- If possible, Please CC me when replying. I'm not subscribed to the list. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
