On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them? > Preferably, if Apt could understand the local directory hierarchy and > automatically put them in their place that would be wonderful.
By default it does save them in a nice format that it can make easy use of. The dselect method by default erases, but in APTv3 this is configurable. I don't really see a huge use in saving to a local heigharchy, why would you want that over a flat directory? Jason