[Piuparts-devel] Bug#512458: piuparts offline

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 03/02/09 at 12:49 +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> >>>>> "HL" == Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> writes:
> 
> HL> tags 512458 +wontfix
> HL> thanks
> 
> HL> Hi,
> 
> HL> On Montag, 2. Februar 2009, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> >>> Just use a local approx mirror.
> 
> >> I'm saying that if anybody knows how to use piuparts (and/or pbuilder)
> >> offline, then please add an example to the documentation.
> 
> HL> You wrote those lines just quoted below the, albeit small, howto. Amazing.
> 
> HL> As you seem to be unwilling to follow the suggestion to provide a
> HL> patch for the piuparts documentation how to use piuparts offline
> HL> together with the approx package, I'm tagging this bug wontfix, as
> HL> I dont have any interest to fix it.
> 
> HL> Feel free to provide a patch, I might include it. Else I will
> HL> close this bug in a month.
> 
> HL> regards,
> HL> 	Holger
> 
> I am saying I do not know how to use piuparts offline. Therefore I am
> unable to provide a patch. I am saying if there is anyone who could
> document how to use piuparts offline, then I wish they would please
> kindly document how, with all the steps, starting from poff(1). Thank you.

You are being annoying.

There's no such things as "running piuparts offline". What you want is
to run piuparts, and find a way to download or find all the debs that
are necessary without reaching a remote mirror.

We pointed to different solutions:
- using a full local mirror (but you would need to mirror all of Debian)
- using a local cache/proxy, such as approx, that would have the .debs
  you need if you first run piuparts online once on the packages you are
  interested in, before running it offline.

If you don't know how to set up a local mirror or approx, you probably
shouldn't be using piuparts anyway.

Also, please configure your mailer correctly, and set up a realname.
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