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[Andy]

On 04/06/07, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> There is a slight flaw with those options. They assume you are using linux
> on the internet connected computer (in your case the library). This is
> unlikely to be the case, and as such you would need to look at the file
> generated (on your usb key) and manually grab the individual files onto the
> key.

Is it not possible to automatically parse the generate file to work
out which files to fetch and them fetch them automatically?
Would be good to have an app that can do that. Probably best to do it
in Java as that has the best deployment so is most likely to be on a
public computer.
Somebody must have thought of and done this before?

or another possibility would be to some how fetch a list of all
installed packages put that on a USB stick an have an application that
runs also on the stick and when hooked up to an Internet connected
computer it downloads new package lists, finds out which packages to
update and lets you chose new packages to install and grabs the files
so they can be installed when you get back to your Linux PC. to be
really clever it could install them for you when you get back.

Andy

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