Re: remote update -> how to re-enforce
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:10:09 +0100
Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> wrote:
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> > Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp> [2003-10-28 03:11]:
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> > > 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.
> >
>
> unfortunately, not really. dselect, AFAIK, is just a front-end to
> apt-get -- even though I realized additional functionality there (at
> least, that's my impression).
>
> wbr,
> Lukas
Dselect is a frontend for dpkg.
Initially it may even be best to get the feel of things with Synaptic,
it has more of an interface to interreact with, and full package descriptions, with dependency recommendations.
Regards,
David.
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