RE: Bug#24799: Some suggestions for the apt method in dselect
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brederlow [mailto:goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de]
> Sent: 5. august 1998 10:10
> To: Francesco Potorti`
> Cc: 24799@bugs.debian.org; Jason Gunthorpe; APT Development Team
> Subject: Bug#24799: Some suggestions for the apt method in dselect
>
>
> Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it> writes:
>
> > A couple more things on the same subject:
> >
> > - Having a to press Enter when some packages have been updated also come
> > handy to me for a reason other than looking at logs: I usually run
> > Update in a virtual console, then switch to do other job. With the
> > old ftp method, when I go back to the dselect console, if I find a
> > prompt I see there have been updates. If I just find the dselect
> > window, I know there have not been any updates (all Packages files
> > were up to date), so I don't even need to do the Select thing.
> >
> > - In the old ftp method, after having chosen the host and directories, a
> > sanity check was made to see if everything was well. I think apt
> > would benefit from a similar feature.
>
> Whats about introducing a new method "download" so one would say
>
> apt-get download update
> or
> apt-get download <package>
>
> which would only download the stuff.
apt-get already has that option. From the manpage:
-d, --download-only
Download only; package files are only retrieved,
not unpacked or installed.
>
> Also apt-get should create a logfile for the errors, the output and
> maybe both in one (in the order they appeared). I usually run apt-get
> in the background (as most will because it takes quite some time) and
> afterwards I don't have a clue what dselect did to my system. Unless I
> forget I do a "apt-get update 2>&1 | tee logfile", but that could be
> made by apt-get itself.
>
> May the Source be with you.
> Mrvn
>
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