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Bug#610629: apt dynamic mmap ran out of room workaround should not be needed with squeeze



On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 14:37:50 -0400, David Prévot wrote:

> It should now be OK for upgrade from Squeeze, here is a straightforward
> patch. Thanks in advance for your reviews, rewrites, remarks or simple
> acknowledgments.
> 
Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>


> Index: en/upgrading.dbk
> ===================================================================
> --- en/upgrading.dbk	(révision 9649)
> +++ en/upgrading.dbk	(copie de travail)
> @@ -1108,35 +1108,6 @@
>  
>  </section>
>  
> -<section id="apt-error-operation">
> -<title>Errors running aptitude or apt-get</title>
> -<para>
> -If an operation using <command>aptitude</command>, <command>apt-get</command>,
> -or <command>dpkg</command> fails with the error
> -</para>
> -<!-- TODO (jfs): Review the message, it has changed in apt-get to
> -"Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit. "
> -"Current value: %lu. (man 5 apt.conf)" -->
> -<screen>
> -E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> -</screen>
> -<para>
> -the default cache space is insufficient.  You can solve this by either removing
> -or commenting lines you don't need in
> -<filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename> or increasing the cache size.
> -The cache size can be increased by setting <literal>APT::Cache-Limit</literal>
> -in <filename>/etc/apt/apt.conf</filename>.  The following command will set it
> -to a value that should be sufficient for the upgrade:
> -</para>
> -<screen>
> -# echo 'APT::Cache-Limit "12500000";' &gt;&gt; /etc/apt/apt.conf
> -</screen>
> -<para>
> -This assumes that you do not yet have this variable set in that file.
> -</para>
> -
> -</section>
> -
>  <section id="conflicts-loops">
>  <title>Conflicts or Pre-Depends loops</title>
>  

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