on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:40:15PM +0700, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Does apt-get have an option for "continue until finished"?
Yeah, it's called the shell.
while ! echo y | apt-get dist-upgrade -d
do
sleep 60
apt-get update
done
...which will attempt to complete the current upgrade (in download-only
mode), sleep 60 seconds after a failure, then update the package list
(in the event it's changed). I find this usually works.
To finish the install:
$ apt-get dist-upgrade -s | less # See what's going to happen
$ apt-get dist-upgrade
> I think that would be great; so that you can leave your computers
> working while upgrading the systems via a slow link (which has a high
> latency, has many hops to http.us.debian.org, and you have cats too).
You've got me nailed.
I run the above do loop periodically. Usually just an "apt-get
dist-upgrade -d" in a cron job, but those are failing more and more
often.
Peace.
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