Re: apt-get

[Oki DZ <okidz@pindad.com>]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> If it interuppted, you can start again.  

That's what I want to avoid.
I want to be able to:
apt-get install -y --try-forever <pkgname>
in which apt-get would try to download the package until the whole package
get downloaded.

>It will not redawnload same
> package.  If you want to save bandwidth, think about setting up proxy
> (squid) so package list can be cached locally.

I think apt-get handles re-downloading pretty well; problem is, you have
to re-issue the command if the line got interrupted.
 
> If you hate to be asked, invoke it with 
> 
> # apt-get install -y ...
> 
> (I never done this.)

Yes, it does as supposed to be.

Oki