On Monday 24 June 2002 20:19, Ian D. Stewart wrote: I know, pretty bad, replying to my own mail... ;)
> > I think I'm starting to see the problem. As far as I can tell, dpkg does > not record the datetime when any particular package is installed/upgraded, > and I can't find anywhere else where this information is maintained either. > The trick then becomes accurately determining this information from some > other set of heuristics. > > Apt obviously know's how to grab a .deb given a package name and set of > sources. Perhaps this could be leveraged, so as to avoid reinventing the > wheel. After further inventigation, it looks like apt-get -d can be used to download necessary packages without installing them. Colin, If a .deb for a given package exists in /var/cache/apt/archives, will apt-get -d still download it, or will it use the local package? Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
