Comment 1 for bug 1425662

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Removed by request (removed3425744) wrote :

After another test it seems that "apt-get download" doesn't use an advantage from the caches (partial and non-partial) as this example shows:

root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get install adwaita-icon-theme-full --reinstall
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8861 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB]
55% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 4894 kB/8861 kB 55%]^C
root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get download adwaita-icon-theme-full
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB]
2% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 178 kB/8861 kB 2%]^C
root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get install adwaita-icon-theme-full --reinstall
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8861 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB]
Fetched 3376 kB in 3s (1029 kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 92319 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../adwaita-icon-theme-full_3.14.0-2ubuntu7_all.deb ...
Unpacking adwaita-icon-theme-full (3.14.0-2ubuntu7) over (3.14.0-2ubuntu7) ...
root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get download adwaita-icon-theme-full
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB]
7% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 659 kB/8861 kB 7%]^C

I'm wondering why "apt-get download" does then depend on the cache. Or maybe "apt-get download" could be enhanced to use advantages of the caches and fallback to use no cache if something went wrong.