Re: dpkg was interrupted, you must MANUALLY *what*...????
Paul Seelig wrote:
>
> wichert@wiggy.net (Wichert Akkerman) writes:
>
> > Previously Paul Seelig wrote:
> > > Why, oh WHY do i have to do things manually when the computer used for
> > > running programs could easily do such trivial things by itself?
> >
> > Complain to deity@lists.debian.org, not debian-dpkg.
> >
>
> I did. But on second thought:
>
> This happened to me as well a few times before using exclusively a
> failing "dpkg -i foo_08-15_i386.deb" (reason: disk full) and it can
> easily be reproduced by simply pressing ctrl-c during install.
>
> I guess, that rather makes it a dpkg problem which dpkg hopefully
> should learn to handle by itself instead of bothering the user with
> manual tinkering. If a normal admin-user has no other choice fixing
> stuff anyway other than doing what dpkg demands, it could rather do it
> all by itself instead of bothering the user-admin with this.
>
> I use a computer for making it do all the stuff i don't want to be
> bothered with. But programs need to be cooperative in this regard.
>
> Cheers, P. *8^)
>
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What's a sysadmin doing pressing ctrl-c during an install anyway ?
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