On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Marc Singer wrote: > Then it seems ever more peculiar that apt should abort when the file > is missing. Why should it care about the status file when it is > invoked to download packages? Basically, it is far better to make people who want to just download packages to create an empty status file, than to have errors related to messed up systems go unreported. After all, it isn't very hard to go touch /tmp/foo. Jason