[Ubuntu-US-NM] EPC suggestion

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Yes -- looks like I can quit worrying!

Eric Krieger writes:
>dpkg will not but apt will. If you run...
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>apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
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>apt looks to see what is already in the local /var/cache/apt/archives 
>before it downloads any packages.
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>Hope this answers your question.
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>Eric
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>Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Yes, I mis-spoke -- but my question about whether dpkg will check the
>> cache to see if a package has been downloaded remains!
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>> Eric Krieger writes
>>   
>>> apt is just a high level package manager tool where as dpkg is low level 
>>> tool. dpkg maintains the information about installed packages and this 
>>> info is located in....
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>>> /var/lib/dpkg
>>>
>>> Much like Red Hat rpm is the lower level too and yum is the higher.
>>> Gentoo...well is gentoo... =P
>>>     
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>>   
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