I don't think you have something set up quite right (or possibly you are
not correctly interpreting what you see.)
Those packages which are already installed will show up in the "uptodate"
categories with the mark ***. Those which you do not have installed
show up as "available" with the mark __ if never installed or ___ if
installed but subsequently purged. I can't recall the marking for
packages which are installed but for which a newer version is available,
since I have updated everything where that applied, but it was obvious
from the dselect display.
When you select a package for installation, it will show --*
To look at a verbose listing in dselect, hit the 'v' key.
When you go to the 'install' action of dselect, you will be given a
listing of those files which it wants to get.
It is working as expected for me, at least.
Bob
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote:
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> Good morning,
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> I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times
> to snag interesting or "oops, needed that" packages since. I've
> found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many
> packages that are of the same version as presently installed.
>
> Usually, these are the big ones as well. No wonder the FTP site
> is so often busy.
>
> Question time: Is there any trouble I can get into by changing
> whole sections with "="? Is this the keystroke, as it seems to
> be, to "don't download it, leave it alone"?
>
> It seems that dselect, while correctly detecting the version
> locally and remotely, isn't making any distinction between what
> is already loaded and what is on the FTP site. This would seem
> to me to be a usefull and basic distinction, a reason for the
> creation of the dselect program and package system in the first
> place.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Curt-
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