Re: d-i: /var/cache/apt/archives cleaned during install
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On Tuesday 07 December 2004 21:24, Gerd Knops wrote:
> Sometime during the install /var/cache/apt/archives appears to be
> cleaned, and all base packages are missing. How can I prevent this?
AFAIK the cache is cleaned two times:
- - once before the reboot either at the end of base-installation or as
part of the cleanup before rebooting; AFAIK there is no way to prevent
this;
- - once after the reboot if tasksel finishes successfully; also no option
to prevent this currently AFAIK.
What you can do is switch to VT2, create a directory to save the archives
(in /target before the reboot!) and copy the debs manually while the
installation system is unpacking and installing them.
Another option after the reboot is: don't run tasksel from the
installation menu.
There is an open bug because aptitude does not reliably signal if an
install was finished without errors when called from tasksel.
You could file a wishlist bug against both base-installer and tasksel to
provide a configuration option to not clean the archives, but I'm not
sure how much chance they would have of being implemented.
Cheers,
FJP
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