On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:17:33AM +0300, Cedar Cox wrote:
>
> Back to Gentoo. Because of all the talk about it here, I decided to
> play with it myself. For example, in Gentoo you can type 'emerge -f
> <package>' and it will (f)etch (download) the package and necessary
> dependencies. Later you can (compile and) install then when you're
> off the net. In fact, (I think) you can then burn the local, now
> populated, package directory to a CD and mount and use it for other
> installs.
>
> Now, I know almost nothing about Debian, but I would expect apt to
> have similar functionality. Anyone?...
apt-get {install,upgrade,dist-upgrade} -d
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