apt-walkabout

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apt-walkabout maintains an APT package cache on removable media.

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tree

Create an apt-walkabout package cache in the current directory. Run this in an empty directory, otherwise a subdirectory apt-walkabout will be created. Run this on either removable media or your local filesystem.

adopt TARGET-SYSTEM-NAME

Copies the list of installed packages to the apt-walkabout package cache, along with a courtesy copy of source list. Run this on your target system. Run this before trying to "fetch".

update

Run an "apt-get update" in the apt-walkabout cache, to update the package lists. Run this on any system with internet connectivity.

fetch [TARGET-SYSTEM-NAME] [APT-GET-COMMAND]

Downloads packages required for a target system to do an upgrade. Uses the package lists and the target system's status file on the apt-walkabout package cache, and saves the packages into the cache. Run this on any system. Run this after you have done an "adopt".

poll

A combination of "update" and "fetch". Updates the package list and does a fetch for every target for both an upgrade and dist-upgrade. Run this on any system. Run this after you have done an "adopt".

apply

Upgrades the target system using the current source list, package lists and downloaded packages. The upgrade by default uses --no-download and --fix-missing so that no downloads are tried. Run this on your target system. Run this after doing an "fetch".

clean-by-exclusion KILOBYTES-LIMIT

Cleans archives from the apt-walkabout package cache that are not required by any of the known systems. It works by generating a list of archives that are required, and then removing the archives in the cache that are not in the required set, in descending order by access time, until the user specified limit is reached. Run this on any system. Run this after several successful upgrade cycles. Run this when your apt-walkabout cache is too large.

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