Question on apt-get update
Dan Kegel
dank at kegel.com
Thu Sep 26 00:40:13 UTC 2019
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:19 AM kavitha R <kavitha.r0573 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When we run "apt-get update", does it download all the packages information that will be stored in /var/lib/apt/lists/* _Packages file?
I think so. You could use tcpdump or wireshark to confirm.
> Why do we store the package full description in a different file?
Possibly because apt was written in 1998 and it seemed like a good
idea at the time?
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