Re: Bug#83433: apt-get: announced download size ignores --no-download

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Yann Dirson wrote:

> --no-download Does not seem to change the list of packages that are really
> going to be upgraded, nor the size remaining to be downloaded.

Thats because it does not effect the package selection, it only doesn't
do downloads.

Read the man page:

       --no-download
              Disables downloading of packages. This is best used
              with  --ignore-missing to force APT to use only the
              .debs it  has  already  downloaded.   Configuration
              Item: APT::Get::No-Download.

Jason