On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:03:03PM +0000, Thom May wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure apt looks for > Packages.gz, and fails if it can't find it... for network uri's that is definitely the case, for local file uri's it'll use an uncompressed Packages file. the scripts I use for my local repositories at the house generate both versions so all boxes can load them properly. Marc