On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 09:31:53AM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:01:09 -0400
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
> > I need to download a package to install on a machine that is
> > currently air-gapped.
> >
> > I have to download an i386 package for chimaera on an AMD64 beowulf
> > machine.
> >
> > I'll be transferring that package by sneakernet, and then installing
> > it using dpkg..
> > If it turns out to have dependencies, I'l have to repeat the process
> > for those dependencies.
> >
> > How do I go about doing the download?
>
> One "easy access" approach is to use https://pkginfo.devuan.org to
> locate the package (deb) concerned, and then download it/them via the
> link(s) provided on the package content page(s). That also provides
> links for dependencies.


That was easy, once I noticed something. Downloading on my beowulf
amd64 machine, that website found me beowulf and64 packages.

But it was not difficult to edit the download link to get what I wanted.

Thank you.


>
> If you want to script it, you might use the XML access variation, e.g.

Probably not -- the packages I needed to install on my temporarily
air-gapped machine were the ones that make wifi work.

I'll be uing wifi from now on.

> like these for a bash:i386 index of packages, and the content page for
> the version 5.0-4
> https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.xml?c=package&q=bash%3Ai386
> https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.xml?c=package&q=bash:i386=5.0-4
>
> The XML response is friendlier for scripting. The access URLs are
> pretty much the same as for HTML but different.
>
> Ralph.
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