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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