severity 266551 wishlist merge 266551 82738 thanks On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:09:56PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 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? Before that, it would have printed a message telling you that the package was already installed. > 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)". The --download-only option has the semantics "download everything necessary to complete the specified operations". It is not a general facility for downloading debs. For that, use 'aptitude download'. A request to have a similar feature in apt-get has already been filed, merging. -- - mdz
