Bug#309627: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#309627: upgrade-reports: Succesful update from archive, some php4 problems)
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:18:21AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 02:27:11PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > I had disk space problems during the first dist-upgrade iteration, because
> > the root disk is only 500MB. This resulted in a lot of errors.
> > I have moved /var/cache/apt/archives to a different partition and linked it.
> > All I wanted to note is that aptitude/apt/dpkg acted very resilient with
> > respect to these problem, it worked out fine.
>
> You are the second user which report recovering from lack disk space is not
> too painful, which is good.
Yeah, however, I would have liked if I didn't have to do the
/var/cache/apt/archives move trick. It is also not so user-friendly.
Normally I delete (large) package files I know dpkg has unpacked
already by hand... but I figured dpkg could be much better at that.
A somewhat riskful option because packages possibly need to be
reedownloaded, but couldn't it be a solution?
> Since all issues seems to be addressed, I close this bug.
Ok, thanks.
Paul
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