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Turbo Fredriksson

2005-07-07, 7:56 am

Quoting Brian May <bam@debian.org>:

>
> Turbo> YEARS (!) ago I wrote the script that did the pre-upgrades
> Turbo> to 'bo' (I _think_ it was to 'bo' any way . It basically
> Turbo> only ftp'd (or was it wget?) required packages from the
> Turbo> Debian GNU/Linux FTP site(s), installed them and then
> Turbo> allowed the user/admin to continue with the upgrade...
>
> Turbo> Now, that seems like 'prior art' to me (even to apt-get .
>
> Did you publish it?


It was distributed as part of Debian GNU/Linux (it was the official script
to do the initial upgrade).


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