Perhaps I misunderstand the dselect installation process, but I thought that dselect unpacks the all selected packages before running the installation and configuration scripts. If one configuration goes badly wrong, doesn't this leave a bundle of unpacked and unconfigured packages lying about?
Probably confused, Casper Boden-Cummins. >---------- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 21 August 1996 05:45 >To: Casper BodenCummins; 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' >Subject: configuring packages as a separate step > >From: Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I like your suggestion of configuring packages as a separate step. > >There may be a bit of misunderstanding here. I did an update of my >system >from the "rex" (unstable) directory today using the FTP method of >dselect. >Updating from "rex" is a good way to get new bugs, but developers have >to >do that. Anyway, the system downloaded and installed all the updated >packages >and then configured all of the updated packages. Is this not what your >system >does? > >In any case, you can use "dselect" to _select_ all of the packages you >want, and then exit dselect and run "dpkg" to install and then select >the ones you've selected. You'll have to figure out the right flags, >but you should be able to separate the installation and configuration >steps. I think this is exactly what "dselect" does - it just runs >"dpkg" once to install, and once to configure. > >Am I not understanding the problem? > > Thanks > > Bruce >