Re: prozilla instead of wget for apt-getting

["Santanu Chatterjee" <santanu@softhome.net>]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 23:10:24 +0200, Vineet Kumar wrote:

> * Santanu Chatterjee <santanu@softhome.net> [20030408 12:56 PDT]:
>> Is there any way I can get apt-get to use
>> prozilla instead of wget while downloading 
>> debian packages ?
> 
> apt-get doesn't use wget, it does all of its fetching on its own.

By the way the output of apt-get looks, I never had any
doubt that it was using wget. Turns out I was wrong!

> 
> If you want to use prozilla to do the downloading, you could make use of
> apt-get's --print-uris option to get a list of URIs which you can then
> feed to prozilla.  If you download them to the /var/cache/apt/archives
> directory, then apt-get will just find them there and not attempt to
> download them next time you run it.

Thanks. I will try that.
Also thanks to all who replied.

Regards,
Santanu