Re: first weekly debian-installer status report

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>]

>         - retreiver control program [UNCLAIMED]
>                 Not started. Sort of like apt, except tons dumber, this
>                 uses retreiver(s) to download Packages files and then udebs,
>                 and calls udpkg to install them.
>         - http retreiver [UNCLAMED]
>                 Not started. Download udebs, other files from network.

I posted a simple apt-get shell script here a week or so ago, it used
wget and dpkg.

apt-get update and apt-get install <package1> <package2> worked except
it didnt check for dependencies.

Either you didnt notice it or you didnt like it ?


Glenn