[Apt-offline-devel] [SCM] Offline APT Package Manager branch, debian, updated. 0.9.4-42-g1ff98fe

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at researchut.com
Thu Oct 15 11:31:11 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the debian branch:
commit 1ff98fe7a9ca48e323b70e5e59e89f0e36f12790
Author: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 15 17:00:38 2009 +0530

    Better describe apt-offline in package description
    
    Thanks to Imran Ebrahim

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0c0cbb3..0cdd298 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+apt-offline (0.9.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Update package description. Thanks to Imran Ebrahim.
+
+ -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com>  Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:59:43 +0530
+
 apt-offline (0.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Initial release (Closes: #531699)
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 95c7682..d788a83 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,13 +17,15 @@ XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
 Description: offline apt package manager
  apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager
  .
- apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based
- distribution without connecting to the network, all of it
- transparent to apt
+ apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution without
+ connecting to the network, all of it transparent to apt
  .
- apt-offline is cross platform and can be run on all
- major platforms to download the packages without the user
- having to worry about package dependencies
+ apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no network).
+ This signature contains all download information required for the apt database
+ system. This signature file can be used on another machine connected to the
+ internet (which need not be a Debian box and can even be running windows) to
+ download the updates.
+ The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by apt and
+ this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine.
  .
- apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available
- offline
+ apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available offline

-- 
Offline APT Package Manager



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