Re: is dpkg install atomic?

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: is dpkg install atomic?
Date	2021-10-26 22:10 +0200
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On Tue 26 Oct 2021 at 19:11:50 (+0100), Brian wrote:

> Assuming that Ctrl-C while dpkg or apt is running is equivalent to a
> power outage, I have found that running the specific command afterwards
> is generally successful.

And it might be worth adding that if apt is downloading a large
package when interrupted, it will continue the download from
wherever it got to, without wasting bandwidth.

Cheers,
David.

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is dpkg install atomic? Han <keepsimple@gmail.com> - 2021-10-26 20:00 +0200
  Re: is dpkg install atomic? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-26 20:00 +0200
  Re: is dpkg install atomic? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-10-26 20:00 +0200
    Re: is dpkg install atomic? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-26 20:20 +0200
      Re: is dpkg install atomic? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-26 22:10 +0200

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