Re: remote update -> how to re-enforce
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2003-10-28 13:00]:
>
> 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.
>
thanks!
glad to read!
wbr,
Lukas
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