[H-GEN] apt-proxy without internet

[Michael Anthon]

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Jimi wrote:

> My idea is to keep all my debian systems at home up-to-date by allowing them to
> request packages from my laptop and when I am at uni I can download the
> packages. Then when I get home the debian boxes can make the request again
> (using apt-get update or apt-get upgrade) and it will act just like apt-proxy to
> download the packages.

Try "apt-get upgrade -y --print-uris > files.txt".  You will need to do 
some parsing of the files.txt to figure out what to do.  In particular 
take note of the warning in the man page that the destination file name 
*may* be different to the pool file name.

        --print-uris
               Instead  of fetching the files to install their URIs are
               printed. Each URI will have the  path,  the  destination
               file name, the size and the expected md5 hash. Note that
               the file name to write to will not always match the file
               name on the remote site! This also works with the source
               and update commands. When used with the  update  command
               the  MD5  and size are not included, and it is up to the
               user to decompress any compressed files.   Configuration
               Item: APT::Get::Print-URIs.


Cheers,
Michael


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