Bug#115953: apt-get -d install <package> doesn't work as documented

[János Holányi <csani@lme.linux.hu>]

I still find it a contradiction. Please re-read my report, the manpage and the
output.

Instead of repacking, I would like apt-get to act as it describes in the man
page:

"
       --download-only
              Download  only;  package  files are only retrieved,
              not unpacked  or  installed.
"

Quoting Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org>:

> I think apt-get does it correctly. For the package is already
> downloaded (it is installed, a few steps further), and as there is no

It is installed, indeed, but I don't want it installed, I want it _downloaded_
_only_ :)

> newer version, there's no point in downloading it. If you want to get

There is a reason, indeed: I want to download it _only_. ;)

> the .deb, you can use the --reinstall option to apt-get, or you can

Do you find it a normal approach to want to reinstall something in order to
retrieve the package file? :) I don't.
I agree that the 'install' command and the 'download-only' feature do not fit
together. That is what this bug is all about.

> take a look at the dpkg-repack utility.
Again, I don't want to repack, I want to download the original vanilla deb from
the relevant archive form sources.list.

Thanks for your help

BR,
Csan

János Holányi, Member
Hungarian Association of Linux Users
Email: csani@lme.linux.hu