Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:43:38PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> After further inventigation, it looks like apt-get -d can be used to download
> necessary packages without installing them.
>
> Colin,
>
> If a .deb for a given package exists in /var/cache/apt/archives, will apt-get
> -d still download it, or will it use the local package?
I believe it'll use the local package, assuming that it has the expected
size and md5sum. I don't often use -d, mind you.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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