Re: Bug#176573: FW: apt-get "+" qualifier on package names doesn't work as documented.

To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
Cc: Bruce Edge <bedge@troikanetworks.com>, APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>, apt@packages.qa.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#176573: FW: apt-get "+" qualifier on package names doesn't work as documented.
From: Daniel Burrows <dnb114@psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:20:29 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:38:31PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> was heard to say:
> FYI, it would be fairly striaght forward to write a tool like this based
> on libapt-pkg, but I don't think anyone has.

  aptitude has a hacked up "download" command, but it's not extensively
tested.

  Daniel

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