Re: apt-get etiquette

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:16:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like urmpi, apt uses a local cache to save downloaded packages. You can find them in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you reinstall you can copy the files you saved from the cache back and after updating the package lists,

apt-get etiquette

I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way to use a local cache? Once up and