Re: packages without .md5sums file?

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:18:04PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Christian Marillat wrote:
> > And for people who use unstable or testing ?
> 
> Use a ftp archive?

For unstable (and to a lesser extent, testing), packages are often quickly
replaced by newer versions.  Often, the .deb for the installed version
will already be gone.

So I think the answer is, don't delete your downloaded .debs until you have
installed a newer version.  apt-get autoclean gives you a reasonable
approximation, as long as you don't run it in between downloading some .debs
and installing them.

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 - mdz