Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

> > What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!!
> 
> Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably
> shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of
> errors and never call dpkg. If you run dpkg and then run out you -should-
> be fine but strange things have been reported...


So what advantage is there of running apt-get over the more
traditional - run mirror, then install using dselect?

Mark.



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