>you wrote on: 04 Feb 99 at 15:53 (received 05.02.99) >about : _Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy._ > >>Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them >Yes, I believe so. Sorry, I don't know the exact syntax, but remember to >have read it with "man apt-get". There is an option, that makes apt just >download the files, without installing them. If you just run the apt-get command by itself, eg apt-get dselect-upgrade then it downloads and installs the files, but doesn't delete them. Personally I recommend using the apt-get -fd dselect-upgrade command. This doesn't install the packages, just downloads them.
>>Preferably, if Apt could understand the local directory hierarchy and >>automatically put them in their place that would be wonderful. >I dunno where apt stores those files, but there's a way to find out :-) The packages end up in /var/cache/apt/archives partially downloaded files go into /var/cache/apt/archives/partial it doesn't save the directory structure though, so if want to maintain a local directory hierachy and use apt you'll have to manually sort the files. Jolyon