Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?
From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 11/07/04
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To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 12:17:19 -0600
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 13:06 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> jh> why would you just one specific package to be updated?
>
> Sorry I didn't explain more. Here's the situation ...
>
> I have an office machine, O, and a home machine, H both using
> sarge/testing. O has a high-speed connection to the Internet, but H
> doesn't. After "updating" O, I copy all the .deb files in
> O:/var/cache/apt/archives to removable media and bring them home.
>
> Once home, I basically do a "dpkg -i *.deb" of the files copied from O.
> (It's actually a bit more complicated due to dependencies ...)
>
> Herein lies the problem. There are packages I install/run on O (e.g.,
> 'mailman') that I do not want to install/run on H. However, if I
> quickly do "dpkg -i *.deb" on H, it'll install *all* the .debs --
> including 'mailman'.
>
> Though I *could* write a script to accomplish what I want (i.e.,
> ensuring each package is present before upgrading), I thought there
> might be an easier approach via a 'dpkg' command-line option (similar
> to "rpm -F").
Why not just:
# cp /cdrom/*deb /var/cache/apt/archives
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
Any debs that are already in H:/var/cache/apt/archives won't be
re-downloaded. The caveat is that any relevant packages that have
been moved into sarge in the interregnum will get downloaded.
This way is a lot simpler, though.
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