I still find it a contradiction. Please re-read my report, the manpage and the
output.
Instead of repacking, I would like apt-get to act as it describes in the man
page:
"
--download-only
Download only; package files are only retrieved,
not unpacked or installed.
"
Quoting Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I think apt-get does it correctly. For the package is already
> downloaded (it is installed, a few steps further), and as there is no
It is installed, indeed, but I don't want it installed, I want it _downloaded_
_only_ :)
> newer version, there's no point in downloading it. If you want to get
There is a reason, indeed: I want to download it _only_. ;)
> the .deb, you can use the --reinstall option to apt-get, or you can
Do you find it a normal approach to want to reinstall something in order to
retrieve the package file? :) I don't.
I agree that the 'install' command and the 'download-only' feature do not fit
together. That is what this bug is all about.
> take a look at the dpkg-repack utility.
Again, I don't want to repack, I want to download the original vanilla deb from
the relevant archive form sources.list.
Thanks for your help
BR,
Csan
János Holányi, Member
Hungarian Association of Linux Users
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
