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Re: Bug#129129: apt: --reinstall and --print-uris don't work together



On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> Which produced the following odd behaviour:
> 
> mizar# apt-get --reinstall --print-uris install debhelper
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2
> not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/184kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
> mizar# 

But there is nothing odd about that, it always prompts y/n for a
reinstall and you already had the package downloaded so --print-uris does
nothing. --print-uris is ment to be used with sneaker-net, not for
querying uris of arbtitary things.

Jason



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