On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 02:27:37PM +0000, Vincent Murphy wrote: > i just got APT 0.3.2. it is an excellent tool. i can't express how > grateful i am to the people that created this. :) > > i have some comments to make about Jason Gunthorpe's offline 'sneakernet' > use of apt-get though. the instructions as distributed with the package > don't work for me. when you try to divert stdout to a file it doesn't > work because apt-get asks "Do you want to continue?". i tried just piping > the output of `yes` into the "apt-get --print-uris dist-upgrade" command > and this worked, although i had to modify the uris file by hand > afterwards. > > perhaps modifying apt-get so it prints "Do youwant to continue" to > stderror might work, but i'm no expert programmer. > > thanks again for this cool stuff.
Speaking of apt, ... is it possible to have apt _remove_ packages as well as install them ? it is a pain having to remove them by hand with dpkg --purge. Also a remove all packages from a given source, or all packages labeled so and so would be nice. This way apt could label gnome-stuff all packages from gnome-stage-2 and i don't have to remove all the tens off packages by hand. Guess this should be sent to the deity ml, so i will cc it there. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
