On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:24:51PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > and your L*.gz files are for your own "time stamping" > and status checking ? Something like that. It's just a flat list of the *.deb files in the mirror /a/l, that's why it's called L*.gz ("list"). It's so I can tell what changed, when.