Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:38:29AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Yes, either this or a FIFO expiration policy on /var/cache/apt/packages
> which gets automatically applied when space runs out. Or possibly
> the option of using /tmp/.apt, with a warning message that the
> packages are in there and need to be moved into the cache.
Neither of these will help most people. Space running out can happen on
one apt-run - nothing in the cache, slink -> potato. /tmp is usually on
the / partition, which probably has less space than anything (and on
many installs ends up on the / partition - at least that's how I was
show to do it.)
> I *don't* think that `apt' (or any other package) should use any
> undefined directories (such as /home) for temporary storage.
> If people want that, they'll symlink /tmp -> /home/.tmp or something.
Not on a general basis. But it would be nice to be able to tell it
to use /home or whereever for it. (/home is a bad idea - just
for saftey's sake, I'd give it a directory where it has complete
control of the contents.)
> Alternatively, is there any other, er, `in bits' way that the
> upgrade can be done?
Check available space, download one bunch of files, install, delete
the .debs, interate.
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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