On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:14:47PM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > Maybe you just don't have enough hdspace on a machine and can't let > apt-get from a http (or ftp) source fill /var/cache/apt with the > packages you want to install (nfs mounted mirror is a 'file:/' URI and > doesn't do this). That's a fair reason at the moment. Fixing apt so it downloads in stages is a better long-term solution. -- Mike Stone