Re: Just one package from woody with apt-get?

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>]

apt-get update just retrieves the latest Packages.gz file, which
contains a list of all packages in the archive

They are stored in /var somewhere, and are named according to
distribution (stable, unstable etc) and mirror used.

montefin wrote:
> 
> Ross,
> 
> 1.) Actually, I do an 'apt-get update' _and_ a 'dselect update'
> beforehand.

There is no need to do both. If you are using the apt-get method in
dselect, they both do the same thing.

> 2.) After apt-get has installed the woody package, I recomment the woody
> lines in sources.list.
> 
> 3.) Then, I do another 'apt-get update' _and_ another 'dselect update'.

There is probably no need to do either of these. You already have the
package lists from your usual archive.

Matthew