On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:12:01AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:44:15PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:53:13PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Othmar Pasteka <pasteka@kabsi.at> writes: > > > > > > > just something what everyboday should know if he/she doesn'T know > > > > it yet, i was bitten by it and i am pissed :/. > > > > > > Why not take that anger and turn it constructive energy, like a patch? > > > I'm sure the base-config maintainer would be pleased. > > I did submit one, albeit untested. aj said that particular patch wouldn't > work correctly. I'm still unconvinced that it doesn't re-download the stuff > even when theres a deb sitting there. it takes exactly the same amount of > time, which really just doesn't make any sense; that would mean all the time > is consumed by doing the checksums, not doing the download. Nah. we are not talking about this, we are talking about base-config rm -rf'ing /var/cache/apt WITHOUT ASKING. nothing to do with debootstrap nor boot-floppies, but i will force a fix in boot-floppies if necessary. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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