Re: dftp problem...D

1999-02-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
OK - now I see the situation you had there. You need to run dftp installed after dftp unpack, but before dftp clear. This will update the .installed file with the packages you just installed. Again, it's all in the man page. Good luck, Tom

Re: dftp problem...D

1999-02-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I really haven't used dftp for a while myself, but according to the man page, the clear option doesn't clear uninstalled packages from the archive. dftp uses it's own /root/packages/.installed file to know what packages are installed. It may have been that your dftp /root/packages/.installed file

dftp problem...D

1999-02-02 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Yes you should be able to run 'dftp getselect' again, but first you want > to: I did what you told me. After doing dftp getselect it got all the packages, but then ist stopped, so next I did dftp unpack Which kept the system busy for some minutes. Since the packages were still in /root/packages