Re: Package Download Tool?

From: Brian Nelson (pyro_at_debian.org)
Date: 08/25/04

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    Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:16:12 -0700
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    On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:56:31AM -0700, ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote:
    > Is there a tool to quickly download, for a given architecture, a given
    > package & its dependancies?
    >
    > I've been doing a lot of cross development & find myself downloading
    > lots of packages using the Debian web interface. Good as Debian's web
    > interface is, this is tedious.
    >
    > Investigating apt-get, I found:
    > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197424 but I can't
    > figure out how to stipulate an architecture to aptitude (-a powerpc, or
    > something) or download depended packages.
    >
    > I need a tool to quickly download (& optionally extract, in one step)
    > packages for a stipulated architecture, & there dependancies. Anyone
    > know of a solution?

    Maybe you can setup a chroot with debootstrap, and fake it out to think
    it's using a different arch than the native one for your machine?

    Alternatively, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to write a script to do
    this.

    > I thought that Debian, with a repository of cross architecture
    > binaries, & the oldest package tools, would be great for cross
    > development - but thus far, it's been surprisingly difficult!

    Well, I doubt many people have the need you've described.

    Multiarch support would probably make this easy, but multiarch isn't
    here yet. 

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