Synaptic without broadband Internet

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On 2/14/06, Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:13:23PM +0100, Alban Crequy wrote:
> [..]
> > I would like a new feature in Synaptic: instead of downloading .deb
> > files and installing the packages, I would like Synaptic to generate a
> > list of URL to download. Then my friend would go to work and download
> > these files, burn a CD and run again Synaptic. Synaptic would find the
> > .deb files on the CD.
>
> Thanks for this suggestions. Synaptic in dapper already has a feature
> like this. It can generate download scripts for packages and import
> the downloaded packages in a secure way (checking the md5sums of the
> importet debs against the Packages list).
>
> The problem is that it currently only exports a script that uses wget
> to fetch the packages [1]. I would be very interessted in suggestions
> for a free (preferable as in speech) tool for windows (maybe with a
> nice progressbar gui) that can be feed with a list of urls and that
> downloads them into the current dir. This way the synaptic download
> script could offer a choice to generate a script for windows users as
> well.
>

Suggestion: generate a XML file with all the upgrade information, including
the relevant links and the MD5 checksum. The actual dependency information
isn't needed but could be mapped anyway (as long as it does not clutter the
XML file). The XML file can be sent by mail or copied and read by Internet
Explorer or Firefox under Windows; I believe (I didn't test) that it will be
displayed, and that the links can be right clicked for the download to
proceed.

For import, Synaptic can read a directory with a bunch of DEB files and the
relevant XML file. Synaptic then could check the XML file, read all the
DEBs, and check the MD5's for consistency.

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Carlos Ribeiro
Consultoria em Projetos
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