Hi again,
> > yes, quite simply:
> I still cannot reproduce this.
aha, you appear to be ignoring apt-offline's own help message and apt-
offline's argument parsing seems nastily picky
usage: apt-offline [-h] [--verbose] [--simulate] [-v] {set,get,install}
i.e. the correct invocation is
# apt-offline --simulate install /tmp/update.zip
and not
# apt-offline install /tmp/update.zip --simulate
You used in your test
> root@priyasi:~# apt-offline install /tmp/update.zip --simulate
while I used
> (stretch-amd64-sbuild)root@jatayu:~# apt-offline --simulate install /
simple.zip
Switching around the order of the arguments, I can get simulate to do nothing
just as you show.
Convention for most command line parsers is that order should not be
important; in some places it is (e.g. git) but then since --simulate is a
global option not a subcommand-specific option, it should be before the
subcommand).
cheers
Stuart
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