Re: HELP: dselect whining about not enough space....
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:45:41AM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> don't know how we are supposed to partition a disk with debian, but
> there are recursively problems by the fact that programs store their
> stuff there: i have only 200M for /var, and that's not enough for
> apache, postgres and apt/dselect....
>
> so its no problem to relocalise apache and postgres, for apt and
> deselect i mad a link from /var/cache/apt/archives to somewhere in home
> where i have plenty of place, but especially this last redirection is
> not very satisfactory...... is there any better, more clean solution?
Look down at the end of the apt-get(8) man page. You can change the
directories apt-get uses by, for example, putting these lines in
/etc/apt/apt.conf:
Dir {
Cache::Archives "/my/archive/directory";
State::Lists "/my/list/directory";
}
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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