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fiddlinmacx

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 89

Get URL list for download of updates on a faster link

I have a Dial-Up Internet connection at home and therefore have put off installing Arch on my home machine. Is there an easy way to get a list of updated package URLs so I can download them using wget (or something) somewhere with a fast link and then copy them onto my home machine? Also, when I do have them downloaded, where do I put them for pacman to pick them up?

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Get URL list for download of updates on a faster link

1. man pacman, see what -p does when combined with -S
2. /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

Also take a look at powerpill portable

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2011-03-02 19:24:15)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Get URL list for download of updates on a faster link

General use:

[karol@black ~]$ sudo pacman -Sp <packagelist>

You want:

[karol@black ~]$ sudo pacman -Syup | grep pkg.tar > urllist

[karol@black ~]$ cat urllist 
http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/chromium-9.0.597.107-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/cmus-2.3.4-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
http://arm.konnichi.com/core/os/i686/file-5.05-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/xulrunner-1.9.2.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/firefox-3.6.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
http://arm.konnichi.com/core/os/i686/initscripts-2011.02.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/i686/xvidcore-1.3.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

Last edited by karol (2011-03-02 19:33:04)

fiddlinmacx

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 89

Re: Get URL list for download of updates on a faster link

That's awesome. It's almost like someone thought of that before ;-)
I come from Mandriva world and wasn't expecting such a nice way of doing it. I still like Mandriva (and hopefully Mageia) for installation on family's machines, but I've got Arch (started with Archbang) on my laptop and I love it.