Re: broken updates in aptitude & connection failed

2004-06-23 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Yep. > > apt-get -dy install FOO && aptitude install FOO > > where FOO is one or more package names, or 'upgrade' or 'dist-upgrade' > > If you don't speak shell, the '&&' operator means 'execute the command > on my right if and only if the command on my left has a return stat

Re: broken updates in aptitude & connection failed

2004-06-23 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 04:31 am, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Is there a way to make sure aptitude first tries to download all > packages and only updates if ALL packages are succesfully download? Yep. apt-get -dy install FOO && aptitude install FOO where FOO is one or more package names, or 'upg

Re: broken updates in aptitude & connection failed

2004-06-22 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> Hi, > > Often i get a "Connection failed" message when trying to update my > packages. This happens with apt-get and aptitude. This part of the problem is probably solved (testing rigth now) The problem is related to the number of seconds specified in the Timeout var in the /etc/apt/apt.conf fil

broken updates in aptitude & connection failed

2004-06-22 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, Often i get a "Connection failed" message when trying to update my packages. This happens with apt-get and aptitude. Last time i did this, aptitude tried to download several packages and because of failed connections (and thus failing to ddwnload certain packages) it only installed a few packa