I have copied /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* to another machine, but try as I might, I cannot get apt to apply those files to ../*Packages. Apt bombs out if it cannot connect to the network. Yes I will connect it to the network, but not today.
How can I trick apt into thinking that it has just retrieved those files itself, and now should apply them? You see using APT::Get::List-Cleanup false I now have plenty of /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* diff files that I can copy to an offline machine, to avoid copying the larger ../*Packages files. But on that offline machine there's no way to do an apt-get check or "apt-get --no-download update" to have those diff files applied to their corresponding ../*Packages files. apt bombs out if it can connect to the network. Do I have to make a script to apply those diff ed(1) scripts by hand?! Here is the files I copied to the offline machine: find /var/lib/apt/lists/ -type f ! -name \*_Packages ! -name lock ! \ -name \*.ed -ctime -1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]