On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote: > I'm not attacking you, William, I'm asking for clarification. It doesn't make > any sense to me that apt-get update wouldn't write its results to disk. > > You don't need to apt-get update all the time, if it writes its results to > disk. But if it doesn't, and you forget to next time you apt-get install, you > run the risk of downgrading something you have installed (or otherwise > corrupting it), don't you?
It's really hard to down-grade in debian, and any cache corruption should stop dpkg from installing a *.deb package.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
