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Re: Can apt be steered?



On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:51:50AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:36:57PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> > Michael Epting <epting@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> > > I didn't know about --dummy-run.  I just searched man apt-get and man dpkg
> > > and neither contains the word 'dummy'.  I'll give that a shot.

> > It's -s, or --dry-run (man apt-get)

> I use -s all the time.  I doesn't show version information or where the 
> file is coming from.  So it doesn't help with helix or tdyc 'conflicts'.

In that case you'd have to fall back on doing a download with no install
I guess - when you download stuff it should you the site you're hitting
and the version number it's fetching while the download is in progress.

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