Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 15 Mar 2001 11:50:01 +0000 From Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de Thu Mar 15 05:49:59 2001 Return-path: Received: from mailrelay1.lrz-muenchen.de [129.187.254.101] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14dWGM-0002ik-00; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 05:49:50 -0600 Received: from phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de by mailrelay1.lrz-muenchen.de with ESMTP for submit@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:49:28 +0100 Received: from geier (helo=localhost) by phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14dWFy-0005TQ-00 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:49:26 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:49:22 +0100 (CET) From: Simon Richter To: Subject: apt: Ability to do multiple operations in one invocation Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: apt Version: 0.5.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, as a standalone feature this doesn't make too much sense, but merged with #80123 (Pre-Download hooks), it does: I'd like to have a cronjob that does apt-get -d update upgrade each night (when phone is cheap) and I'd like apt to use mclient/masqserver to dial out for this. Of course, I don't want that the modem hangs up between getting the package lists and the actual packages, so this will have to be done in one invocation of apt, with apt noticing that the upgrade will potentially still need the modem. 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!