On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:58:53AM +0100, Malcolm Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 23 lines which said:
> Indeed, the advice given by each of these tools IIRC was to update > every time you used it, before doing anything else. (So why was it > a manual task then?) You can put it in cron (Ubuntu does it by default). > On the other hand, every one of those tools eventually failed for me > on the update step, leaving me with an inconsistent and non-working > configuration. ??? If something is wrong in the update step, the installed packages are not modified. If the database of *available* packages is corrupted (something I never saw with apt/aptitude or Gentoo's portage), then you cannot install new packages but existing packages work fine (the *available* packages database is distinct from the *installed* packages database). _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
