The patch posted to this bug report looks like it should work -- it does about the same thing that my hacked-up pkgAcqFile replacement does, but with a default argument for backwards compatibility.
Incidentally, the other place where I have to override libapt's routines is when I *want* to download a package to the cwd: I took pkgAcqArchive's constructor and jammed in a "directory" parameter (indicating the destination directory). Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | swapon /dev/ram | \------ Listener-supported public radio -- NPR -- http://www.npr.org -------/
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