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Re: Bug#74765: apt: An option to force get of latest-version packages would be nice.



On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, James Mastros wrote:

> reinstall of packages which the user already has the latest version of.  For
> example, if there is filesystem damage, a reget of existing packages can be
> used to replace missing files.  It seems like it should be rather trivial to
> implement, but I don't know much about the dependency-analysis system of apt.

wakko{jgg}~#man apt-get
[..]

       --reinstall
              Re-Install  packages that are already installed and
              at the newest version.


Jason



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