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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.23.2
The update methods should ask whether you want to merge to the available
instead of always clearing it. It would be very nice, especially when one
has more than one CDs with the packages, which is the case of hamm
distribution.
It would also help in the cases when you have installed some local packages
(like kernel image) -- updating now results in "obsolete" packages.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux pandora 2.0.35 #1 Sat Aug 1 17:24:40 CEST 1998 i586
unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7t-1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - shared librari
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Hi,
The gist of this report is the request to, "merge to the available
instead of always clearing it." However, doing so could easily result
in dselect satisfying dependencies with packages which do not exist on
the media being accessed, resulting in errors during the Install
phase... a worse situation than having installed but apparently
unavailable packages categorized as "Obsolete/local."
A far better solution is to use the APT Access method for dselect in
conjunction with a properly constructed sources.list file.
- Bruce
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