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Re: long daemon outages on upgrade



On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:59:16AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:

> The real problem, imho, is that apt leaves things in the unpacked and
> unconfigured state too long.  I see no problem, with it doing partial
> configures.

> Ie, during an upgrade, when there are X number of unconfigured packages, go
> and do a configure run.  However, the apt author doesn't want to do this, and
> has given no good reason as to why.

Another approach which has been suggested is that packages that
shouldn't be left unconfigured for too long could be tagged by the admin
(perhaps also in the packages file) and then upgraded and configured
individually.

The suggested workaround for now is to do this by hand.

-- 
"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."

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