On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 05:01:44PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > I think Wouter meant to download one package at a time, then install > it, then go fetch the next and so on. This way you could do with _a > lot_ less free space for keeping the debs before installing them...
I think a wrapper script for apt-get could be written to do that. For instance it would use the following: apt-get update apt-get -s upgrade > upgrade.list foreach line in upgrade.list where line =~ /^Inst:(.*)/ apt-get install line The problems would be to check for: 1) 'apt-get update' fails to download indices 2) 'apt-get install line' returns an error (ignore package already newest available) Of course, the user would have to be present during this whole thing as each round of 'apt-get install line' may have a new set of questions. Alternatively there's the 'Yes' to all questions flag -- may not cover all cases though (???). -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+