Re: saving .debs to their original name

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> Perhaps someone can resubmit http://bugs.debian.org/231776 so the
> strategy behind
> $ man apt-get
>    --print-uris
> can get documented somewhere.

Why?  It might change, and you don't need it.  apt-get --print-uris
gives you the URI and the filename.  Since you have both, you can
either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading,
or rename things to the correct filename afterwards.  

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