Re: dselect

[Rick <rickya@siservices.net>]

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Hahaha...I know exactly what you mean.  That's part of the problem I have
now.  I used the hold command to put a stop to that and now have to select
file by file to upgrade since nobody seems to know how to clear the status in
dselect.

On 12-Apr-97 George Bonser wrote:
>
>My harping about remembering selections has to do with selecting to
>upgrade something that requires a reboot to take effect or messes the
>system up until it IS rebooted. Then not running dselect again for a month
>and in the meantime, a newer version of this is uploaded to the FTP site.
>You run dselect, forget that you had selected some obscure package that is
>quite large or requires reboot, select a bunch of docs, walk away while it
>is downloading come back to find that you need to reboot a network server
>and knock a bunch of folks "off the air" for a few minutes.
>
>
>
>I am giving .sigs a break this month
>
>George Bonser
>grep@oriole.sbay.org, grep@cris.com
>
Have a good one.

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Rick Jones              E-Mail: Rick <rickya@siservices.net> 

Date: 12-Apr-97                                                                                                Time: 03:09:56
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