Package: apt Version: 0.5.3 Severity: normal My apt/sources.list file contains only mirrors available over NFS (or sometimes on the local disk itself), such as:
deb file:/home/debian sid main contrib non-free deb file:/home/debian-non-US sid non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free Apt therefore installs packages directly, and doesn't download anything. So why does it ask the question: Do you want to erase any previously downloaded .deb files? [Y/n] It used not to do this, but I don't remember when it started. It's an unnecessary (and irritating!) question if one isn't using ftp or http to access the packages. I'm using all default settings; the only configuration file I've altered is /etc/apt/sources.list Tim. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux trill 2.2.19pre2 #1 Mon Dec 18 09:56:02 GMT 2000 i686 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.3-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010506 The GNU stdc++ library
