hi, I'm in the process of upgrading from slink to potato. I'm at the step where i'm doing apt-get --feixbroken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade. My isp is set up such that I only have a connection for up to 8 hours at a time. I ran the apt command overnight last night and got a lot of packages but it wasn't long enought to get everything. Is there way to indicate to apt-get which packages I now have in /var/cache/apt/archives so that it doesn't try to re-download them and starts with the files it doesn't already have? (please keep in mind that if any of the answer to this is in the man pages for apt-get, sources.list, or apt.conf that for whatever reason, I've never gotten those pages in my current installation and I can't find what package might have included them that I might e missing. That's one thing I'm really hoping will change with this upgrade, it's very frustrating not to be able to read parts of the FM for myself)
here's a thought.... if I did a dpkg --get-selections > filename and went in and editted it so that everything I already have is set to 'hold' and then did a dpkg --set selections < filename would that non-dangerously do what I want to do, or does it have the potential to seriously F anything up? -Alice (come on potato... big upgrades... no whammies... no whammies...) --------------------------------------------------------- This message sent using EMUmail -- http://www.emumail.com --------------------------------------------------------- Jumping through hoops to get E-mail on the road? You've got two choices: Join the circus, or use MollyMail. Molly Mail -- http://www.mollymail.com
