On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:14:26PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Debian is great for remote system administration. Thus, I make use > of it for several "head-less" servers that are only adminstratable by > remote-login via network interface. Usually, I do an upgrade/update > at the same time for all boxes, including my Laptop. Today, while all > other servers were upgrading, the latest update of pcmcia-cs shut down > the interface. > > When I logged in again on the remote boxes I simply restarted the > update process, but then I realized that dselect considers the > update being completed totally and proposes to delete the previously > downloaded packages even though the update process was interrupted > before.
Then the upgrade really *did* complete successfully, even though you didn't have a terminal for the last part of it. It's not possible for dpkg, and therefore dselect, to consider the upgrade complete otherwise. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
