On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Bruce Edge wrote: > The docs (man apt-get) state that you can append a plus sign to a > package name in order to force it's installation despite conflicts:
Er, it says 'decisions made by the conflict resolution system' not 'conflicts'. It's impossible to make apt do something that would violate a packaging requirement. > My rational for wanting to do this is I'm using apt-get with > --download-only to create a local package mirror of everything I need to > burn my own custom installer CD. As it stands, I cannot use this method > to create a package pool with any conflicting packages. This is correct. apt-get is not a downloader tool. I think other people have made downloader tools that can be used for what you want, though I've never used them and don't know what they are called :> FYI, it would be fairly striaght forward to write a tool like this based on libapt-pkg, but I don't think anyone has. Jason
