Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

[Andrew Pollock <debian-lists@andrew.net.au>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:56:03PM +0100, Bernhard Kuemel wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> >Bernhard Kuemel wrote:
> >
> >>I suspect base-config to automatically answer yes to the "Do you want to
> >>delete any previously downloaded package files?" It probably happened
> >>when during a debian installaiion I managed to import
> >>/var/cache/apt/archives via NFS or when I used base-config to "set" my
> >>RTC to UTC that most of our package collection on our file server got
> >>deleted.
> >
> >base-config runs apt-get autoclean.
> 
> Well, thanks for making that clear. I'd like to have the option 
> to skip that. I had packages from releases other than that 
> defined in the current sources.list and would have liked to keep 
> them.

It's a bit late now, but it's probably a good reason to export that 
directory read-only, so your installations can't go frigging with your 
file server...

regards

Andrew