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Re: dselect



asura@darkforest.uwyo.edu writes:
>> Completely unattended upgrades are a worthwhile goal, but they
>> aren't possible in the general case yet.
> 
> I am interested in this because if I'm at home, and telnet to my
> linux which is at work, I'd like to tell it to upgrade remotely
> without having to stay online for hours while it downloads and
> installs the updates.

Maybe you want to have dselect running inside of a detached screen
session.  'apt-get install screen', and read screen(1) for details on
how this works.

-- 
David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
	-- Abra Mitchell



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