Re: APT broken ?
On 10 Apr 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
> So as I see it there are at least three cases here:
>
> The install is accidentally broken.
> Because we've all been living without apt for so long, various
> inconsistencies can arise. It would indeed be a great feature if apt offered
> to fix the problems. Since there may be many ways of fixing things it might
> be best if this were handled in the front-end though. This would give the
> sysadmin a chance to adjust the solution.
.5 (starting in .2/.3?) has a -f option that attempts to fix things,
combined with dselect it provides pretty much everything you ask. The
option is enabled when you are using APT from dselect.
> A related case is what happens when an error occurs downloading files.
> Currently it panics and doesn't upgrade anything. Ideally it should check what
> files have been downloaded, exclude any that can't be satisfied without the
> erroneous package, and handle the valid ones.
.5 does this as well.
Jason
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