Be able to download .deb files from an apt repository

[sjoerdsimons]

#8 adds the ability to unpack .deb files which is quite useful, but to download a .deb on demand you'd have to know the exact filename. In the case wehre you want to get the .deb because you want to raw write the bootloader into an image file this is a bit annoying as the url will change on every package update. If there were an action similar to download but takes an apt repository as parameters that could nicely be avoided

[stappersg]

The

this is a bit annoying as the url will change on every package update

have I solved with HTTP redirects from a database that is daily updated with Packages.gz files.

It was original written to fetch non-free firmware without changing /etc/apt/sources.

On a laptop that needs Intel wireless wifi drivers, you can do
wget http://stappers.it/do303/firmware-iwlwifi.deb

See also http://stappers.it/ra303/