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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