On 6 Jun 2001, Dave Carrigan wrote: > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you edit the files in /var/lib/apt/lists to fix the problem (in the > > entries for the blt and blt-demo packages), apt notices that you don't > > have the same as what is in the remote archive and fetches the files > > again -- first downloading them into /var/lib/apt/lists/partial. > > Actually, I fixed the problem yesterday for myself by editing > > > /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > > and apt did not download a new one on the next dselect update. I think > maybe it compares timestamps and does not download a new packages file > if the local one is newer.
That's odd... not that it didn't re-fetch the packages files, but that it didn't for you and did for me. - Bruce
