What is the *right* way to sync to slink (or any other distribution)? I looked into dftp and found that it seems more like a method for installing new packages than keeping in sync with the most recent versions.
The main thing I'm trying to avoid the duplicate package install problem. For example, dselect gets very confused when I have more than one package version present in my distribution directory. It installes the lower numbered one first and then goes through the successive versions upgrading. This caused a problem with X, for example, when some of the files moved and the uninstall scripts weren't clever enough to handle the soft links. -- Marc Singer
