Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:35:06 +, RichardA wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:16:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Like urmpi, apt uses a local cache to save downloaded packages. You >> can find them in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you reinstall you can >> copy the files you

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-30 Thread RichardA
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:16:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like urmpi, apt uses a local cache to save downloaded packages. You > can find them in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you reinstall you can > copy the files you saved from the cache back and after updating the > package l

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello RichardA (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my > install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. > Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many > packages from the server, each time? Is there a

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:56:50PM +, RichardA said > I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my > install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. > Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, Well, unstable does break, and you need to know how

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
RichardA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my > install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. > Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many > packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy

apt-get etiquette

2003-11-25 Thread RichardA
I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way to use a local cache? Once up and runnin