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#1 2006-03-26 21:40:19

Eliteforce
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Registered: 2006-03-26
Posts: 56

Keep packages up to date

Hi!

I'd like to know who to keep certain packages up to date.

I have mirrored the whole current dir with rsync but i just need a few packages from extra.
Now i run rsync for extra with --delete and --existing which deletes the packages if they are old, then i have to download them manually with a ftp client again. Can't rsync do that? smile

cheers

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#2 2006-03-27 05:52:46

phrakture
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From: behind you
Registered: 2003-10-29
Posts: 7,879
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Re: Keep packages up to date

Why are you rsyncing if you only want some packages?  What are you trying to do that 'pacman -Syu' cannot do?

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#3 2006-03-27 11:41:11

Eliteforce
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Registered: 2006-03-26
Posts: 56

Re: Keep packages up to date

im using cygwin rsync on my laptop, but not at home since i dont have such a good internet connection for that
i use this packages for installing and updating arch on different pc's, so i hardly need to download anything at home tongue

..  i just want to automate this process

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#4 2006-03-28 03:37:53

Snowman
Developer/Forum Fellow
From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-08-20
Posts: 5,212

Re: Keep packages up to date

Her's an idea:
On your computers at home, you could do a:
pacman -Syup > url_file
This will update the db and put the url of the new packages in url_file instead of installing them.  Copy url_file to your laptop and download the packages with :
wget -i url_file

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