[Apt-offline-devel] URIs from aptitude, via multiple steps

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

If you can help with the equivalent of the following in aptitude, that'd be of 
great help.

12:47:06 rrs at champaran:~ $ apt-offline set -h
usage: apt-offline set [-h] [--verbose] [--test-windows]
                       [--install-packages [PKG [PKG ...]]]
                       [--install-src-packages [SOURCE PKG [SOURCE PKG ...]]]
                       [--src-build-dep] [--release release_name] [--update]
                       [--upgrade] [--upgrade-type upgrade]
                       apt-offline.sig

positional arguments:
  apt-offline.sig       Generate a signature file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --verbose             Enable verbose messages
  --test-windows        This switch is used while doing testing on windows.
  --install-packages [PKG [PKG ...]]
                        Packages that need to be installed
  --install-src-packages [SOURCE PKG [SOURCE PKG ...]]
                        Source Packages that need to be installed
  --src-build-dep       Install Build Dependency packages for requested source
                        packages
  --release release_name
                        Release target to install packages from
  --update              Generate Signature to update APT Database
  --upgrade             Generate Signature of packages to be upgraded
  --upgrade-type upgrade
                        Type of upgrade to do. Use one of upgrade, dist-
                        upgrade, dselect-ugprade



Regards,
Ritesh



On Sunday 07 Mar 2010 12:49:23 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Why does aptitude have to pull so many packages ?
> 
> Also how do we instruct aptitude about commands like "dist-upgrade" and
> "safe- upgrade" ?

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
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