Re: not enough room in /var/.../... to hold all debs

[Andrea Vettorello <dnc@thctribe.net>]

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 08:29, Gary Turner wrote:
> My var partition is 240M.  As I attempted a dist-upgrade to woody, I was
> told there is not enough room in the inn.
> 
> What are my choices here?  Must I resize the partition ( there is all
> kinds of room in the home or usr partitions I could steal ), or could I
> create a link into, say, home/debs?
> 
> When setting everything up, I did not get the impression that var needed
> to be all that large.  Should I just bite the bullet, and start over--I
> haven't gotten any production stuff on this machine yet.
> 

You can pass an option to apt-get to store the packages in your home,
something like 
'apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="/home/your_home/debs" dist-upgrade'.

Probably apt will complain about a missing "partial" directory, so
create one under "/your_home/debs".


Hope this helps.


Andrea