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Re: rsynced Packages OK, then must fool apt via proxy?



Hi Dan!

You wrote:

> I've been reading up on apt, and I read that there's no more
> forthright way to hand a Packages.gz file to apt other than
> hoodwinking it thru the caching proxy server... No?
> Is there no better way currently?

Can't you just put it in /var/lib/apt/list with the correct name and
timestamp and run apt-get update?  I don't think apt will download it
again.

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