Re: empty status
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Marc Singer wrote:
> Then it seems ever more peculiar that apt should abort when the file
> is missing. Why should it care about the status file when it is
> invoked to download packages?
Because apt is not a package downloader. It is a system upgrader/installer.
When you invoke -d, apt just skips the installation steps. However, it still
takes the system's state into account to figure out what it needs to install.
> What I'm saying is that there are some assumptions coded into apt and
> dpkg that make them difficult to use in ways that are useful, but not
> as originally intended. What is the harm in making them more
> flexible?
You are assuming apt can download packages. It can't. It installs and
upgrade packages.
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