> > > >My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have > > > >been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp > > > >install, and came up with 10 megs of updated packages. > > > > Here, here...I second this. I know you can confirm what to get but > > > maybe there should be single question to overide this default behavior > > > or something. > > > I am a little confused here - dpkg-ftp prompts you if it should get > > all the new packages marked for installation or if it should prompt > > for each one separately. What more do you want? Should the > > questions be worded better? > > The problem isn't that I *have to* get everything; it's that it's the > default, and the default can't be changed. > > I ran into this one on a machine that I wanted to keep "stable". > Unfortunately, I needed to go to "unstable" to get make-kpkg, and > ended up upgrading nearly everything. (This was very early in my Debian > "career".) I still run into this occasionally when I go to a different > site to look for something. > > Normally, the default is what I want, but there are times when I don't. > > The problem with using the "hold" feature is that if I set "all updated > packages" to "hold", then do an "update", I have "holds" scattered all > throughout the list. > > One solution would be to hade an "unhold" feature, which sets the status > according to the currently-installed status. >
I don't understand this. The 'default' behavior of dpkg-ftp is to _ask_ the user if they want to get all of the new/updated packages prior to initiating the ftp connection. If I only want one or two packages right then, I can select only those packages and the rest can be retrieved (or not) the next time I select [I]nstall. This seems to be exactly the behavior you're looking for, yes? Maybe I've misunderstood. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~fols9488 "Life is wasted on the living." - The Master -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]