Mark, Wow, I'd completely forgotten about this and have been using apt-zeroconf for a long time now.
> I would be grateful if you could take a look at apt-cacher version 1.6.7 > which I believe has the functionality you were after. Although it is > transparent to the user. If a host is not contactable but the file is > cached, apt-cacher returns the cached file. This sounds like it would solve the problem, indeed. So thanks anyway, even though I doubt I'll be using apt-cacher in the near future. johannes
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