On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system without root privileges. Additionally, parsing the Sources file is another challenge. And again additionally, I don't want to get alerts just because my mirror is down or desynced. I was rather content with parsing packages.debian.org output.
Hi Marc, As an alternative, you might be interested in looking at http://people.debian.org/~henning/trille/ Best regards, Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC