On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Francesco Potorti` wrote: > When using the apt-get method, dselect should install packages using the > --fix-missing option to apt-get. When using a mirror, in fact, it is > very frequent to find inconsistencies in the archive status, due to > delays and mirroring problems, so I am very often forced to give up with > dselect and using `apt-get --fix-missing dselect-upgrade'.
This is an APT issue.. It is deliberately not set because fix-missing and -f can be mutualy bad in some cases (particularly they give unhelpfull error messages..) If you have the 0.3 versions you can set a configuration file value to force this anyhow. Jason
