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Re: remote update -> how to re-enforce



Hi,

* Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> [031028 09:43]:
> Dear all,
> 
> Debian is great for remote system administration.  Thus, I make use
> of it for several "head-less" servers that are only adminstratable by
> remote-login via network interface.  Usually, I do an upgrade/update
> at the same time for all boxes, including my Laptop.  Today, while all
> other servers were upgrading, the latest update of pcmcia-cs shut down
> the interface.
> 
> When I logged in again on the remote boxes I simply restarted the
> update process, but then I realized that dselect considers the
> update being completed totally and proposes to delete the previously
> downloaded packages even though the update process was interrupted
> before.
> 
> Is there any way how I can restart the update process such that all
> packages are truely installed?

Sorry I don't use dselect so I don't know how to get it to do this.
However I believe that I you use apt-get to do your upgrades then this
problem will be avoided automatically.

Cheers,

Nick.

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Debian testing/unstable
Linux twofish 2.6.0-test9-looxt93c1 i686 GNU/Linux

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