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Re: Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy.



On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote:

> Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them?
> Preferably, if Apt could understand the local directory hierarchy and
> automatically put them in their place that would be wonderful.

By default it does save them in a nice format that it can make easy use
of. The dselect method by default erases, but in APTv3 this is
configurable.

I don't really see a huge use in saving to a local heigharchy, why would
you want that over a flat directory? 

Jason


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