On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:38:31PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > > Ethan> we are not talking about this, we are talking about > Ethan> base-config rm -rf'ing /var/cache/apt WITHOUT ASKING. > > Hmmm... Maybe I misunderstood something, but my impression from the > bug report is that base-config does ask if /var/cache/apt should get > removed, but then ignores the answer and deletes /var/cache/apt > anyway. no it never asks. dselect on the other hand will, but regardless of your answer to dselect base-config turns around and rm -rf's it anyway. > Reading further into bug #103302, there could be some confusion in > this regard, not sure. its really quite simple: /var/cache/apt/archives/ must *NOT* be removed unless the user gives explicit permission to do so. right now base-config *ALWAYS* rm -rf's /var/cache/apt/archives without permission. > The maintainer seems to think fixing this problem requires asking the > question twice???? Now I am confused... the maintainer simply doesn't want to fix it and is spewing rediculous reasons for not doing so. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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