Re: apt and /var

[Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>]

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote:

> I like apt.  A whole lot.  But it insists on downloading packages into
> /var/somethingorother,  and since my /var partition is small,  I can't
> download more than 1 or two packages...
> 
> I've had to resort to using dpkg-ftp because it allows me to specify that
> downloaded things should be stuck in /tmp ... is there any way to tell
> this to apt?  And if not,  can we throw it on the wishlist?

My method would be to symlink the cache directory that apt uses to /tmp or
some other place that you want the files to go.  I haven't tried this with
apt though.

HTH,
Brandon

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