Hello! Thanks to René, I discovered dbp-get, which can automatically download the CL-Debian packages adding the following to ~/.darcs-buildpackage: ===== repobase = /path/to/your/local/repository upstreamrepo = %(repobase)s/%(package)s-upstream debianrepo = %(repobase)s/%(package)s cldebianbase = http://cl-debian.alioth.debian.org/repository debianmirrors = %(cldebianbase)s/lcapello/%(package)s %(cldebianbase)s/pvaneynd/%(package)s %(cldebianbase)s/rvb/%(package)s upstreammirrors = %(cldebianbase)s/lcapello/%(package)s-upstream %(cldebianbase)s/pvaneynd/%(package)s-upstream %(cldebianbase)s/rvb/%(package)s-upstream ===== In this way, you can just use `dbp-get [package]` and dbp-get will search for package in one of the repository above (local, debianmirrors or upstreammirrors), acting: 1) if package and package-upstream are already present in the local repository, it makes a `darcs get package` to the current directory 2) if the package is present in one of the mirrors, it downloads the package and package-upstream to your local repository, then `darcs get package` to the current directory HTH (at least for me yes ;-) ). Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca