Two Apt (Package) Questions

[Nuno Carvalho]

Carthik Sharma wrote:
> On 10/14/05, *Nuno Carvalho* <rekconk at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rekconk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Carthik Sharma wrote:
>      > Hi all,
>      >
>      > I am in the process of getting ready to upgrade to Breezy, and have a
>      > couple of questions:
>      >
>      > 1) What is the command to download (only download) all .debs of all
>      > installed packages?
>      > The idea is to have a copy of all the .debs in a cdrom, since
>     this would
>      > mean I have all those that I want. I had run apt-get autoclean
>     once so
>      > my apt cache is almost empty now.
>      >
>     just add "-d" to your apt-get call
> 
>     eg: apt-get -d upgrade
> 
> 
> This will download the packages that need upgrades. I want to download 
> packages that are already installed,  and up-to-date ? (for archival)
my mistake:

$ dpkg --get-selections  | cut -f 1 > packages.list
$ apt-get -d --reinstall --print-uris install `cat packages.list`

> 
>      > 2) I have used various sources over time, so is there a command
>     to list
>      > which .deb source a particular package was downloaded from? Text
>     file
>      > output showing all packages installed and where they came from
>     would be
>      > great. I know that dpkg --get-selections gives me a list of installed
>      > packages and their state, but it does not provide info about
>     where the
>      > package was installed from.
>     use "--print-uris", instead of fetching the files apt will print
>     deb's URL.
> 
> 
> Again, this will print the URIs of packages about to be upgraded, or 
> installed anew. It will not provide me with any info regarding the 
> packages I have installed.
> 
> 
>     I could do "man apt-get" to see this...
> 
> 
> Well, I did read it, thrice over, and found no reasonable way to do what 
> I wanted, hence the request for information.
> 
> Carthik.
> 
> 
>     best regards
>     Nuno
>      >
>      >
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Today's fortune:
If all the Chinese simultaneously jumped into the Pacific off a 10 foot 
platform erected 10 feet off their coast, it would cause a tidal wave 
that would destroy everything in this country west of Nebraska.