apt-get update

[Meng Cheah]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:47:16PM -0400, Merv Curley wrote:
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>>Sorry Giles, you missed my question.  When one does an 'apt-get update'  the 
>>data that comes in must go to a file somewhere. In /var/cache/apt/ or ?.  
>>Else how could you use that data for a week or two or 6?   I want to be able 
>>to tell my pal in Japan where to look to see if that file is there.  
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>/var/lib/apt/lists/
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Thank you.
I read the post and thought "/var/cache/apt/archives".
Ran "apt-get update, upgrade, autoclean and clean" while checking the 
above directory.
Realized that wasn't it and started to read the APT HOWTO.

Thanks again :-)

>>When I do an 'update' and then do it a second time shortly after,  my second 
>>one takes almost no time since there is nothing to change, I guess.  At 2 
>>Kb/s or less, it takes him an hour to do the update and would take equally 
>>long to try to install even a small program.  When he did the update last 
>>time and it apparently disappeared, he did it again the next day.  It took an 
>>hour again, I would have thought there were very few things to change and 
>>would take just minutes.
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>>An upgrade is out of the question, he only gets 4 hours a month for many many 
>>yen.  He would like to able to be able to see how many dependencies there are 
>>for an install,  something that adept and kpackage etc will tell him.
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>Well fortunately etch and future debian's now transfer diff's rather
>than the complete Packages file, which makes apt-get update run much
>faster for most people after getting the whole file the first time.
>Should help a lot in general.  Sarge and older transfer the whole
>Packages file every time it changes (but only when it has changed).
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