merge 89725 82825 thanks On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Randolph Chung wrote:
[Making APT support multiple operations per invocation, for the sake of automatic dialup] > pray tell, why not: > > #!/bin/sh > dial-out-on-modem > apt-get update > apt-get -d upgrade > hang-up-modem Well, this bugreport isn't about the download hooks, there is another bugreport for that (not from me, BTW). What is the point is that APT should be able to dial up as needed (For example, there is no point in dialing up when the files are already cached, but a wrapper shell script cannot know this), and sometimes you want to have multiple things done that require the net. If APT had to be restarted in between, it would hang up the phone and dial up again a few seconds later. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: DC26 EB8D 1F35 4F44 2934 7583 DBB6 F98D 9198 3292 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! NP: VNV Nation - Darkangel
