Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If you try to edit /var/cache/apt/available and rerun `update' your >> fixes get over written when the available file is built. >> >> 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.
A "less" intrusive method is to edit /var/cache/apt/available and then run dpkg --merge-avail /var/cache/apt/available - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash
