Please support downloading of remote packages

Using gnomevfs would allow to install packages from a lot of locations. But I don't know what the KDE users would think about this.

Dapper is alread in freature freezy. But I wrote it on the TODO.

Regards,

Sebastian

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:13:33PM -0000, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> Using gnomevfs would allow to install packages from a lot of locations.
> But I don't know what the KDE users would think about this.

How about downloading it via urllib to /var/cache/apt/archives and
install from there? I could imagine that this could be implemented in
less than 10 lines of code.

> Dapper is alread in freature freezy. But I wrote it on the TODO.

Thats right.
>

Using the build-in apt_pkg package retrierer is probably a better solution. Otherwise the xfce people will not like us anymore :)

Michael Vogt:

I had no idea what you meant, but eventually found it: apt_pkg.GetPkgAcqFile for which there is an example in /usr/share/doc/python-apt/examples/acquire.py

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gdebi-developers/gdebi/trunk/revision/360

This bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.7.0

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gdebi (0.7.0) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Luca Falavigna ]
  * GDebi/Gdebi.py:
    - Add Launchpad integration (LP: #520353).
    - Assign a proper title to dialog_deb_install (LP: #576566).
  * GDebi/GDebiCli.py:
    - Handle FetchFailedException when a package is not available in
      the mirrors (LP: #442172).
  * GDebi/GdebiKDE.py:
    - Fix status output to correctly display utf-8 chars (LP: #606549).
  * GDebi/Gdebi.py, GDebi/GdebiKDE.py:
    - Use correct IEC prefix name to display Installed-Size (LP: #44286).
  * GDebi/GDebiCli.py:
    - Try to determine correct localized value for "Y" answer by parsing
      first value located into square brackets instead of relying on an
      hardcoded value (Closes: #605147) (LP: #577140).
  * po/*.po:
    - Refresh translations exported from Rosetta.
  * setup.py:
    - Do not ship gdebi.xml mime-info, the .deb mime info is part
      of the shared-mime-info package (Closes: #502717)
  * debian/source/format:
    - Switch to format 3.0 (native).
  * debian/control:
    - Build-depend on python (>= 2.6.5-2~) for dh_python2.
    - Drop python-central build-dependency.
    - Drop obsolete Conflicts/Replaces fields.
  * debian/rules:
    - Switch to dh_python2.

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * debian/control:
    - recommend on libgtk2-perl instead of libgnome2-perl
  * gio support, thanks to István Nyitrai (LP: #34133, #80862).
 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:25:28 +0000