Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)
With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable for apt that
would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in a user defined place. This
way, if your /var is close to being full, you could, for example, drop it into a
temporary directory on /home for the upgrade. This isn't the best place, but on
many systems, /home is one of the largest partitions on a system, and tends to
have a good ammount of free space on it because users may use a large ammount of
space.
Dave Bristel
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Alexander N. Benner wrote:
> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:14:44 +0200
> From: "Alexander N. Benner" <Nikodemus@Aleph.Christen.Net>
> To: deb-devel <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)
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> Hi
>
> Ship's Log, Lt. Steve Dunham, Stardate 160999.0113:
> > > /var 96M
> >
> > BTW, your /var might not be big enough to handle an upgrade from slink
> > to potato. (Depending on whether the source of the packages is net or
> > CD, I think.)
> >
>
> That's right, but I think it might be more a 'bug' in apt-get then in the
> partitioning. I had problems with my 1GB /var when I tried to do a compleat
> upgrade within potato.
>
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