On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Martin Mitchell wrote: > > That does little to help people make a snapshot of their packages on a CD, > > for example. apt should be able to be configured to move downloaded packages > > into a local archive. > > Are you trying to reinvent the -s option for apt-get with a simple command > to copy/hardlink/whatever the files elsewhere, and then restart apt-get > without the -s option? You can always divert apt and use the script below > instead.
Eh? WTF does that do? Perhaps you mean -d? And even then there is no point, apt-get does NOT erase packages, only apt-get from dselect. Jason
