Bug#228844: cron-apt: treats "--no-download --download-only" as error

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:28:58AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: cron-apt
> Version: 0.0.18
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> hi,
> 
> on one of my hosts, I'd like cron-apt to send update e-mails, but not
> to download any packages automatically. To accomplish this, I have set
> "upgrade --no-download --download-only --show-upgraded --yes" in
> /etc/cron-apt/action.d/3-download.

Combining --no-download with --download-only does not make sense
anyway. You either want to download or not, you can't do both
at the same time.

You might want to use "--simulate" instead, or add "--fix-missing"
as the manual page for --no-download says.

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