I don't disagree with you at all. However, case in point: *** Perl 5.xxxxx shows up in the dselect list.
Perl 5.xxx is then downloaded and installed. Again. What might I have misconfigured? Curt- In reply to 2 Jun message from Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >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: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> >> >> Good morning, >> >> 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- >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: 2.6.2 >> >> iQBVAwUBM5MlbTcqfTGtEDyfAQGKMQIArRX48pvZ1rDy93irtr6Oo8B3415n6oZB >> xg4Ys3KlVB3J4fNAN2tOiJpE0gK8aDv7oTY9WXbOy+REtsfjjwQXnQ== >> =YK4i >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >> -- >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] . >> Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . >> >> >> >---- >Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ >AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AX.25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen --- Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Priss.com "The Probability Broach" by L. Neil Smith ISBN:0-812-53875-7 Available from Laissez Faire Books http://www.lfb.org/ 1.800.326.0996 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
