Re: [Synaptic-devel] Synaptic Limitation

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Vogt" <address@hidden>
To: "raid517" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Synaptic-devel] Synaptic Limitation


> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:13:59PM +0000, raid517 wrote:
> > Hi I need to re-download all of the files that are installed on my
> > current system without reinstalling them, so that I can take the package
> > cache (which I normally choose to delete) to a non networked system that
> > has not been updated for some time - and use this as a local repository.
> [..]
>
> The latest synaptic version in the svn repository (and in
> ubuntu/dapper, soon in debian/unstable as well) contains a feature to
> export a package download script and import the resulting debs. The
> package index (Packages.gz) needs to be up-to-date though.
>
> Is this useful for you?
>
> Cheers,
> Michael

Possibly - but I don't know if it does everything I am asking for.

A simple option to 'reinstall everything' (or at least to reinstall all 
packages that can be reinstalled) Gentoo style, would suffice. This would 
afford me two options. The first is simply a repair option should one or 
more packages on my system become broken, deleted or damaged in some other 
way. The second is that this would allow me to couple this command with the 
secondary command that states 'download packages only, do not install'. This 
would allow me to rebuild my entire package cache without reinstalling 
everything and would allow me to copy this cache and use it as a repository 
on a non networked machine.

These as I have said are common features within Gentoo - it would be very 
useful to see similar functionality within Debian/Synaptic.

GJ