Re: Bug#59724: apt: fetching only packages of a decent age
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 debian-bugs@marc-haber.de wrote:
> How about having "apt-get --age 5 dist-upgrade" that only downloads and
> installs packages that are at least five days old? That way, one wouldn't
This is not something that should be done with the end-user tools, it
tends to defeat the purpose of having a freeze and running frozen. The
problem lies in the release process and I think this will be alleviated by
concepts like the Package Pools which will do this on a global basis.
Besides, the information isn't even available for APT to make these sorts
of choices, you'd have to change dpkg-scanpackages first.
Jason
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