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Subject: apt: An option to force get of latest-version packages would be nice.
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It would be convient, from time to time, to be able to force reget and
reinstall of packages which the user already has the latest version of. For
example, if there is filesystem damage, a reget of existing packages can be
used to replace missing files. It seems like it should be rather trivial to
implement, but I don't know much about the dependency-analysis system of apt.
Thank you,
-=- James Mastros
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Subject: Re: Bug#74765: apt: An option to force get of latest-version packages
would be nice.
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, James Mastros wrote:
> reinstall of packages which the user already has the latest version of. For
> example, if there is filesystem damage, a reget of existing packages can be
> used to replace missing files. It seems like it should be rather trivial to
> implement, but I don't know much about the dependency-analysis system of apt.
wakko{jgg}~#man apt-get
[..]
--reinstall
Re-Install packages that are already installed and
at the newest version.
Jason
