On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:11:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Note this bit from the "apt-get --compile source ${pnam}${pver}" > command: > Need to get 647kB of source archives. > Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/main gqview 1.0.2-1 (dsc) > [630B] > Get:2 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/main gqview 1.0.2-1 (tar) > [643kB] > Get:3 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/main gqview 1.0.2-1 (diff) > [3679B] > Fetched 3B in 0s (13B/s) > Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in gqview-1.0.2 > > So, apt-get goes out to get the source, but sees that the source > already exists in the current directory, and then skips the source > download.
Ah... I get it now. This didn't work for me because I went offline immediately after the download, and not realising that it wouldn't actually do anything, refused to go online again. So the file: line in sources.list to give the local copy higher priority seems to be not a bad setup for me. Thanks, Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]