Re: dpkg was interrupted, you must MANUALLY *what*...????
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:29:25PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> APT does not run dpkg in this case automatically because that command can
> cause an unexpected change in the users system, like configuring packages.
> If dpkg had some other command that only cleaned up after it crashed then
> APT could call that.
And dpkg doesn't automatically cleanup after itself for pretty much the
same reason.
I think "apt-get -f" should force doing "dpkg --configure -a", or apt
should have some command line option to do this. Dpkg is a low level
tool, it's ok to have to manually do things with it. Unlike apt, which
is highlevel and tries to do much of the thinking for the user.
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