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Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives



On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:48:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:12:01AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So, uh, why don't you *test* it then?

Yes, well I didn't feel technically up to it, I was having a very hard 
time reading the dense shell code. But it would definitely be a good 
learning experience, so I'll tackle that next.

> deboostrap does *not* download things that're already there. Whatever
> you're seeing is probably a bug, but it's not what you think it is.

I'll see if I can pin it down. It's a very frustrating (bug || whatever) 
for a (slow || expensive || (slow && expensive) network user.

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