Yes, Debian Package Manager handles filesystem exceptions , nicely , (fwd)
Saw this on comp.os.linux.development.system... Thought I'd pass it on
here.
Christian
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Date: 6 Feb 1997 00:48:03 GMT
From: Bryce <wilcoxb@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Yes, Debian Package Manager handles filesystem exceptions nicely
In a previous thread named "In Praise Of Debian Package
Manager" someone asked me if dpkg would handle running out of
disk space gracefully. I said "I would guess so but I haven't
tried it.".
Well, I was out of inodes on my root partition but didn't
realize it. I tried to install new binutils and some other
package with dpkg. It failed, set the flags indicating broken
installation, and nicely informed me of such. I tried again
several times in different ways, tried command switches to
over-ride warnings, tried uninstalling and re-installing, and
even tried uninstalling other packages and re-installing them
along with my new packages! In short, I did just about every
stupid thing a user could be expected to do to a poor package
manager. But nothing broke, and after I found the directory
full of an infinite number of smail warning message files and
deleted it (and uninstalled smail using dpkg), then I ran
dselect again and installed everything nicely.
Yummy.
Thanks, Debian folks!
Bryce
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