Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > Andrew Pollock wrote: > >>>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... > > But then it would not be possible (unless the sticky bit (?) or > such automatically creates read only files) to write to > /var/cache/apt/archives and installation of new packages would > fail. The archive would not collect packages and be of no use. > > A suggested solution is a caching http proxy but that would > disable smart cache purging with apt-get autoclean. However, > apt-get autoclean is somewhat limited, as apt-get update runs out > of memory with too much data (e.g. stable+testing+unstable), but > that bug will hopefully be fixed. He already has an NFS export, so the correct and easy way to do it would be to add file:// uri's to sources.list. base-confg already prompts for such uri's when it is setting up apt. Or use apt-move or something. -- see shy jo
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