Making apt-get powercut-proof

[Sam Tygier]

Evan wrote:
> Reading this, I just thought I'd mention that previous upgrades have caused
> issues with scrollkeeper-update, in which the only way to continue was to
> kill the process. Having a 'skip package' option would have been
> particularly useful in that situation.

updating the docs database can take a very long time (i dont know why).

you need to be patient.

sam