Re: Debian Boot CVS: aph
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> > the apt-get way of downloading is *not* going to work for us. It
> > refuses to download Required packages that are already installed. Feh!!!!!!!
>
> Have you tried setting Dir::State::status to point to an empty file or
> something?
Fyi, apt is perfectly capable of doing this.
..
STATUS=$DPKG/status
..
:> $STATUS
..
This is from my apt-get based baseX_X.tgz builder. It's not quite ready
yet(apt gets an internal error very near the end)
----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----
Version: 3.12
GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS--
PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z?
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
----BEGIN PGP INFO----
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Finger Print | KeyID
67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E 63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP
AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG
-----END PGP INFO-----
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