Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-19 Thread Paul Christenson
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-18 Thread fols9488
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

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-16 Thread Andy Guy
Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Christenson writes: On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: 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

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On 15 Nov 1996, Andy Guy wrote: Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Christenson writes: On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: 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

Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-15 Thread Brian K Servis
Paul Christenson writes: On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: 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. (Not bad at work, but can be