Re: DSELECT question
I don't disagree with you at all. However, case in point:
*** Perl 5.xxxxx shows up in the dselect list.
Perl 5.xxx is then downloaded and installed. Again.
What might I have misconfigured?
Curt-
In reply to 2 Jun message from Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>:
>I don't think you have something set up quite right (or possibly you are not
>correctly interpreting what you see.)
>Those packages which are already installed will show up in the "uptodate"
>categories with the mark ***. Those which you do not have installed show up as
>"available" with the mark __ if never installed or ___ if installed but
>subsequently purged. I can't recall the marking for packages which are installed
>but for which a newer version is available, since I have updated everything where
>that applied, but it was obvious from the dselect display.
>When you select a package for installation, it will show --*
>To look at a verbose listing in dselect, hit the 'v' key.
>When you go to the 'install' action of dselect, you will be given a listing of
>those files which it wants to get.
>It is working as expected for me, at least.
>Bob
>On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote:
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>> Good morning,
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>> I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times
>> to snag interesting or "oops, needed that" packages since. I've
>> found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many
>> packages that are of the same version as presently installed.
>>
>> Usually, these are the big ones as well. No wonder the FTP site
>> is so often busy.
>>
>> Question time: Is there any trouble I can get into by changing
>> whole sections with "="? Is this the keystroke, as it seems to
>> be, to "don't download it, leave it alone"?
>>
>> It seems that dselect, while correctly detecting the version
>> locally and remotely, isn't making any distinction between what
>> is already loaded and what is on the FTP site. This would seem
>> to me to be a usefull and basic distinction, a reason for the
>> creation of the dselect program and package system in the first
>> place.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Curt-
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