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Re: apt and caching .deb's



On Tue, 5 May 1998, G John Lapeyre wrote:

> 	Apt downloads all the packages and then installs them.  Every RH
> and Debian network method I've seen does this.  Is there a way to download
> a package, install it and throw the deb away, to save disk space ?  
> 	If I wait too long between upgrades, I run into big problems.

I have been thinking of a limiting option, set the size of your scratch
space and then it will pull back that many, install, erase, continue.

Long, long way off though.
 
Jason


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