* Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> [031028 17:12]: > > Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp> [2003-10-28 03:11]: > > > > > > When I logged in again on the remote boxes I simply restarted the > > > update process, but then I realized that dselect considers the > > > update being completed totally and proposes to delete the previously > > > downloaded packages even though the update process was interrupted > > > before. > > > > > > Is there any way how I can restart the update process such that all > > > packages are truely installed? > > > > Sorry I don't use dselect so I don't know how to get it to do this. > > However I believe that I you use apt-get to do your upgrades then this > > problem will be avoided automatically. > > > > unfortunately, not really. dselect, AFAIK, is just a front-end to > apt-get No it's not. > -- even though I realized additional functionality there (at > least, that's my impression). apt-get will not delete packages unless you specifically tell it to. eg apt-get clean Here is an example apt-get update apt-get upgrade *crash*, *burn*, Ctrl-C etc. dpkg --configure --pending apt-get upgrade Try it yourself. Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test9-looxt93c1 i686 GNU/Linux
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