Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/apt-get For us offline modem users, is there a better way, when one wants the ease of # apt-get install some-tiny-package
but doesn't want the overhead of # apt-get update almost every day, just to make sure one is getting the latest some-tiny-package. So it occurred to me that instead of fetching e.g. http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/pool/main/l/linkchecker/linkchecker_1.8.12-1_i386.deb why not fetch http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/pool/main/l/linkchecker/linkchecker_latest.deb i.e. a symlink to the latest version on the server. Indeed, my miracle idea could be phased in without disturbing the present system, and */*_latest.deb's on the server wouldn't disturb anything. For simple packages that just get newer, this seems like it will work... Oh, then one must rename the package after retrieval. Also maybe the dependencies have changed.... Ok, well that was fun, never mind. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.20-k7 #1 Tue Jan 14 00:29:06 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library -- no debconf information
