Re: Telling apt where my files are...
On: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:24:32 -0000 Moore, Paul writes:
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> PS I'd like to do apt-get upgrade (or even dist-upgrade) but I don't
> want to do the multi-megabyte download all at once. Can I get apt to
> tell me what would be done by a [dist-]upgrade and then let me do it
> in stages?
apt-get --no-act upgrade
> PPS Someone here has been talking about getting apt to let me retain
> downloaded sources after the upgrade. I agree, that would be useful
> for me, too. Maybe allow a "cache" directory to be specified, where
> downloaded sources get cached (a zip drive, say). And add an extra
> "type" for sources.list which lets apt point at that cache as
> another (incomplete) distribution source...
/var/cache/apt/lists is the cache for packages downloaded by apt-get.
Torsten
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