severity 260146 wishlist thanks On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:50:30PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> since latest apt-get update my DSelect::UpdateOptions "-m" stopped > working, as for unknown reason apt-get update now ignores -m, and always > reports error code 100 when some package lists failed to download. > > I need this feature because not all sites I'm downloading packages from > are always up, and currently when this happens, apt internal > package list IS updated in such situation, but dselect's list is left > alone (which I think is broken itself), not knowing about new and updated > packages available. > > For now I've applied change below - which IMHO is correct thing to do > anyway, as both apt and dselect available package lists should be always > in sync as much as possible. > > If you'll apply something like patch below, then I can live without > update -m being resurrected. Otherwise please give me option to accept > only some downloaded package lists back. I do not think -m/--fix-missing has ever been applicable to apt-get update. As documented, it only applies to the downloading of packages (not package indexes). -- - mdz
