Get package URLs from a list of packages from a certain Ubuntu/Debian repository. Used for a manual method of apt-mirroring (apt-cacher-ng)

get-package-urls.sh

#!/bin/sh

# retrieves all package URLs for i386 and amd64 architectures

PKGLIST=$1 # lists can be found at http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/indices/
OUTFILE=$2

# get all URLs for i386
#for i in `cat $PKGLIST|awk '{print $1}'|sed -e 's/$/:i386/'`
for i in `cat $PKGLIST|awk '{print $1}'`
do
	apt-cache show ${i}:i386 |grep "Filename:"|cut -f 2 -d" "
	apt-cache show ${i}:amd64 |grep "Filename:"|cut -f 2 -d" "
done | uniq > $OUTFILE

# wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/$URI