On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 06:05:42PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Realistically, if you're not going to install to additional machines and > it's been more than a day or two since you installed a package (to > provide time to notice any install/configuration problems), the odds of > needing the deb again are pretty much nil. Using "clean" instead of > "autoclean" will be fine in the large majority of cases. > For those cases where you need to install debs on machines which are not connected to the net or have slow connection/limited bandwidth, dpkg-repack is your friend.
I use it regularly and it is a whole lot easier than downloading
packages again.
Regards,
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