Edgy->Feisty: option to download everything in advance?

[Derek Broughton]

Jonathan Hudson wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:44:15 +0100
> Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2007-04-24, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> 
>> > My request for the same:
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/update-manager/+bug/108515
>> 
>> I agree with you.
>> 
>> > It seems that previously you could achieve that by using
>> > apt-get dist-upgrade -d, but that did not work for me for Edgy ->
>> > Feisty upgrade.
>> 
>> Too bad --- it would be quite useful.
> 
> apt-get -d dist-upgrade did the job for me.
> 
apt-get has never accepted options after the command, so:

# apt-get dist-upgrade -d
is invalid
# apt-get -d dist-upgrade 
is valid

Aptitude, otoh, accepts the options anywhere.
-- 
derek