Re: can apt* find var/cache/files?
On Saturday 31 July 2004 10:25, Brian Astill wrote:
> Basicaly the question is in the subject line :-)
>
> I recently re-installed, saving my original home files and so on,
> including the .deb files from /var/cache. I have put those files back
> into /var/cache.
>
> Will apt or aptitude find those files, or will they want to download
> them again?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Brian
> sos-sa.org.au
I've done this very thing on a few occasions. I use aptitude, and I copied
the files to /var/cache/apt/archives/, and aptitude used the local copies
automatically, provided they were up to date.
Justin Guerin
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