On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 02:46:31AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > hi, I'm in the process of upgrading from slink to potato. I'm at the step > where i'm doing apt-get --feixbroken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade. My isp > is set up such that I only have a connection for up to 8 hours at a time. I > ran the apt command overnight last night and got a lot of packages but it > wasn't long enought to get everything. Is there way to indicate to apt-get > which packages I now have in /var/cache/apt/archives so that it doesn't try > to re-download them and starts with the files it doesn't already have? > (please keep in mind that if any of the answer to this is in the man pages > for apt-get, sources.list, or apt.conf that for whatever reason, I've never > gotten those pages in my current installation and I can't find what package > might have included them that I might e missing. That's one thing I'm > really hoping will change with this upgrade, it's very frustrating not to > be able to read parts of the FM for myself) >
Just my understanding, but I believe that apt is smart enough to check its cache before downloading, so if it's already got a bunch of stuff it won't get those again. > here's a thought.... if I did a dpkg --get-selections > filename and went > in and editted it so that everything I already have is set to 'hold' and > then did a dpkg --set selections < filename would that non-dangerously do > what I want to do, or does it have the potential to seriously F anything > up? > > -Alice (come on potato... big upgrades... no whammies... no whammies...) > Your main danger is of running out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives; if it looks like you will and you can't arrange for more space try upgrading a few large thing incrementally first, like maybe # agt-get install emacs20 # apt-get install task-tex # apt-get upgrade # apt-get dist-upgrade John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
