Synaptic without broadband Internet

[John Nilsson]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 14:43 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> Suggestion: generate a XML file with all the upgrade information,
> including the relevant links and the MD5 checksum.

Better yet, a digitally signed list of MD5s.

Why XML?



Some suggestions from me. (work == place with high speed internet)


Web service
===========

User has slow internet at home.

At home user tells synaptic to make a repository-file on a web service.
A link to the repository-file can be sent to a mail account using this
dialog.

        The web service takes a list of URI's and generates a repository
        with those packages.

At work user can download the repository from the web service.


Helper app
==========

User has no internet at home.

At home user tells synaptic to make a package fetcher for windows. Gets
a .exe that can be mailed or put on a floppy.

At work user runs the .exe which downloads and composes a repository.
This repository also includes an updated list of available packages.
It's also possible to for the .exe to calculate what packages to
download for a complete upgrade using this new list.



Regards,
John