Previously Martin Mitchell wrote: > That does little to help people make a snapshot of their packages on a CD, > for example. apt should be able to be configured to move downloaded packages > into a local archive. Are you trying to reinvent the -s option for apt-get with a simple command to copy/hardlink/whatever the files elsewhere, and then restart apt-get without the -s option? You can always divert apt and use the script below instead. Wichert. #! /bin/sh set -e apt-get.real -s $@ for i in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb ; do ln $i /var/cache/apt/global/`basename $i` done apt-get.real $@ -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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