Re: Bug#467650: debian-edu: Downloads things, does not clean up after itself.
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
On the other hand - why isn't apt not part of essential?
Because it's not. What is part of essential is dpkg.
Well, I'm aware of the current state - I just was wondering
whether apt should not become a part of essential. This is
just a question which is not at all related to your bug report.
From that description I have to wonder why you need to download all
those .deb files. Can't you do the same thing with just the Packages
file?
There are no packages downloaded at all. Only packages files are
parsed for the availablity of packages in a certain distribution.
Putting it in some arbitrary path isn't very useful. If all packages
start to write to "../tmp" and store something there, sooner or later
things will break.
Well, I doubt that so many packages have good reasons to do so. I
would not really call it a clean solution but fail to see the danger
of breaking anything serious.
On the other hand if we follow my plan for building the control file
I posted in the last mail the problem will vanish at the build machine
because the temporary directory (if needed) will stay on the machine
where the source package is assembled. So the build machine stays
clean.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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