Also sprach Colin Watson (Sat 21 Jun 02003 at 05:41:51PM +0100): > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:17:58AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Also sprach Colin Watson (Sat 21 Jun 02003 at 12:58:47PM +0100): > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:20:16AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > Can I ask why you do $dselect update instead of $apt-get update ? Maybe > > > > dselect looks at /etc/apt/sources.list and doesn't ever > > > > look at the /etc/apt/preferences file? > > > > > > No. Michael is doing the right thing here. When configured to use apt as > > > its access method (as is the default), 'dselect update' runs 'apt-get > > > update' and then merges the output into dpkg's available file. I advise > > > never using 'apt-get update' directly. > > > > Thank you. I know that I'd read that suggestion somewhere, and since, > > I've made it my habit. However, for purposes of a cronjob, how do I do > > _this_ with dselect ??? > > > > apt-get -q=2 update > > Poking around in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update, I believe you can set > 'DSelect::UpdateOptions "-f -q=2"' in /etc/apt/apt.conf (which you can > create if it doesn't exist). Yes, thank you, this does work unattended: # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Cache-Limit 12582912; APT::Default-Release "testing"; DSelect::UpdateOptions "-f -q=2"; -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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