Re: [PLUG] trouble compiling 2.2.18 kernel under debian

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:58:11PM -0500, basic wrote:
> is the -y a  new option?

It's a synonym for '--assume-yes'.  I personally recommend against using
it.  Darxus uses it, I think, to avoid having to hit <Enter> if there are
more packages to be installed than those you specify on the command line
(due to dependencies).  I don't use it because I don't want apt replacing
my config files with the defaults.

Note that I *do* use it with the -d option (download only).  I like to do
this:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -dy dist-upgrade
...useful when you track unstable.  I can start updating, go and do
something else, and come back and do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
interactively (where I can monitor config file replacements).

As to whether or not it's new, I'm not sure.  It's in the version of dpkg
that's in potato.

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