Package: apt Version: 0.5.27 Severity: normal Want to peek a package.deb, but it's no longer in apt's cache. You decide to downlad the package:
apt-get -d install package.deb Apt starts, processes, and tells 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. Hm, that was quick. Let's peek /var/cache/apt/archives. No? Not there? PROPOSAL If user requested --download-only option to get the package to disk, it is unintuitive to have to be forced to add yet another otpion --reinstall to have the actual download to start. Apt could check if package is no longer in cache and fetch it as necessary. User expects option --download-only to mean "request to get the package to _disk_ (whatever means necessary)". -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26.20040601 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
