On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 11:41 +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> aha, you appear to be ignoring apt-offline's own help message and
> apt-
> offline's argument parsing seems nastily picky
> 
> usage: apt-offline [-h] [--verbose] [--simulate] [-v]
> {set,get,install}
> 
> i.e. the correct invocation is 
> 
>         # apt-offline --simulate install /tmp/update.zip
> 
> and not
> 
>         # apt-offline  install /tmp/update.zip --simulate
> 
> 
> You used in your test

Oh. Okay. I'll see what best can be done for this case. apt-offline
relies on argparse for argument parsing. If this is a bug, it'd be a
common bug for argparse. For apt-offline, I'll have to see what best
workarounds are available.


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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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