On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Michael Tempsch wrote: > How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? > Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the > connection drops every 5-15 minutes... > > Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will > resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file?
Yep, that is it, dselect's ftp method implements reget, which is like crash recovery in zmodem. Shaya > > Or is there more to it? > Maybe better to ftp updated packages by hand and point dselect to them? > But that is definately not as neat as just pointing dselect to the site > and periodically checking on progress and if necessary reconnect... > > /Michael > -- > | Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | > | Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
