Re: remote update -> how to re-enforce
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:14:26PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> 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.
Then the upgrade really *did* complete successfully, even though you
didn't have a terminal for the last part of it. It's not possible for
dpkg, and therefore dselect, to consider the upgrade complete otherwise.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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