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[Paul]

> What I would expect is that when I do a download only install, 
> the packages I select will be downloaded (of course).  When I do 
> it again, I would expect to be presented with new/updated packages
> that have been added to the remote repository in the interim and 
> I can choose to download or not (via the same selection process as 
> now).  I would also expect to be able to select for download packages 
> that I hadn't chosen the first time.  All of this based on what is 
> in the downoad directory, not what happens to be installed or not.

It should be possible to write a script that would look in the download 
directory and create a corresponding (temporary) /etc/setup/stalled.db 
so that setup's operation is dependent on what's in the download 
directory rather than what's installed on a given machine.

Or, you could just work with the system as it is by installing all 
packages you want to mirror on your download machine and always doing 
the download/update from that machine; thus, the local machine's 
packages will be the same as the local directory's packages.


Paul


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