On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:49:05 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
> Other than man and google which seems to have so many results has anyone
> got a url for the use of all the dpkg switches with concise
> explanations?
"man dpkg" is one of the best resources you could find out there, mostly
because it will
Hi,
Other than man and google which seems to have so many results has anyone
got a url for the use of all the dpkg switches with concise explanations?
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T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it
conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for).
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:12:49 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
>>>... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), then
>>>apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it
>>>conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was
>>>for).
>>>
>>It
Michael S. Peek wrote:
T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed
because it
conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the comma
T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it
conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for).
T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it
conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for).
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
> ... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
> then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it
> conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for).
It should work.
T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:11:58 -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote:
Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install
the package?
Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be
scheduled for install via "dselect --set-selections", too. If you
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:11:58 -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote:
>> Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install
>> the package?
>
> Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be
> scheduled for install via "dselect --set-selections", too. If you're
> going
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install
> the package?
Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be
scheduled for install via "dselect --set-selections", too. If you're
going to go this route
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Kevin Buhr wrote:
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections'
command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg
that sets up NIS for generic
"Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> The man-page for dpkg suggests that Michael's method should have
> worked:
>
>> dpkg --set-selections
>>Set package selections using file read from stdin.
>
> Notice that additional parameters are not required, and the input
> comes from stdin.
I
Kevin Buhr wrote:
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections'
command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg
that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand co
On 08/30/2006 06:54 PM, Kevin Buhr wrote:
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections'
command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg
that sets up NIS for generic workstati
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections'
> command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg
> that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand correc
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:03:00 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
> I thought I would be slick and write a package that contains a script that
> will figure out what should be installed/removed/upgraded/etc. on each of
> the machines where I work. (Using sarge, btw.) I had planned to do this
> by listi
tatus in a
file, then piping that file to 'dpkg --set-selections', and then using
'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to process the new package selections.
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work as I expected.
I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-sele
Hi,
Key is "do not upgrade SSH and blow-up upgrade."
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:43:12AM +1000, John F wrote:
> We have a situaution where we want to ensure that a server has a certain
> list of packages installed. It can have extra packages, but it _must_
> have the list we specify on it.
>
>
Hi all,
We have a situaution where we want to ensure that a server has a certain
list of packages installed. It can have extra packages, but it _must_
have the list we specify on it.
Can I use dpkg -get-selections > a.file and then edit it to only include
the install and deinstall lines for
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