[Piuparts-devel] Bug#386741: Bug#386741: don't ignore apt-get update

[Lars Wirzenius]

On la, 2008-02-16 at 08:49 +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> It's my first time using piuparts, here on sid
> 
> # piuparts /var/cache/apt/archives/plucker_1.8-22_i386.deb
> 
> ...and it wants to haul the whole Packages.gz file down the phone
> line, totally ignoring that I am an assiduous user of apt-get update
> already.
> 
> Too luxurious.

Piuparts builds a whole new virtual system for testing. Whatever you do
outside the virtual system is irrelevant, since it can't use the
Packages file of the host system. If you have slow access to your
nearest mirror, piuparts is always going to be painful to use for you.
Sorry.