Re: APT 0.3.2 offline use
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> i have some comments to make about Jason Gunthorpe's offline 'sneakernet'
> use of apt-get though. the instructions as distributed with the package
> don't work for me. when you try to divert stdout to a file it doesn't
> work because apt-get asks "Do you want to continue?". i tried just piping
> the output of `yes` into the "apt-get --print-uris dist-upgrade" command
> and this worked, although i had to modify the uris file by hand
> afterwards.
Ooops, this is a small error in APT, in quite-quite mode it should not be
prompting (implicit -y)
For the moment you can work around the problem by including that -y option
Jason
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