Package: apt Version: 0.7.11 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi,
two years ago I requested that the --no-download option for apt-get be extended to also work for "apt-get update". The rational is that I have a wrapper that filters the downloaded Packages files and then needs to let apt-get update its database with the altered file. I wrote a small patch for this in http://lists.debian.org/deity/2006/04/msg00053.html diffstat: apt-get.cc | 5 ++++- debian/changelog | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) The ftp-masters have asked the ia32-libs team if we could reduce the code and source duplication that is ia32-libs and this small feature is needed to ia32-libs conversions on the fly instead of uploading dummy packages to the archive. It would save about 440MiB of duplicated sources and binaries. So please, please, consider this patch again. My responce 2 years ago was positive but then nobody added the patch. If you have any problems applying the old patch I'm happy to update it to the latest apt version. MfG Goswin PS: 2 years ago someone told me a workaround using the python apt module to update the database without downloads in a private mail I've lost. Does anyone know how that was done? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.2-mrvn Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-3 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
