Re: apt-get --reinstall

To: aurelio <a.turco@bom.gov.au>
Cc: apt@packages.debian.org, kov@debian.org, deity@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get --reinstall
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:33:42 -0600 (MDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.1020813213252.2630A-100000@wakko.debian.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 3D59C4DB.5822D416@bom.gov.au>

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, aurelio wrote:

>     Re-install packages that are already installed
>     and at the newest version.

 
> But in the APT HOWTO it says:
> 
>   "reinstalled with the same version".
 
> Is this a bug in the documentation or in my understanding?

'and at the newest version' == 'no newer version' == 'only version that
can be installed is the same version'

Jason

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