blew away /var/lib/apt/lists/ again
I am looking in /var/lib/apt/lists/
I see I have got
debian.linux.org.tw_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages
but uname -a says
Linux debian 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686 unknown
I.e. I am a 686 not 386. Is this bad?
Also I had 8 cdrom's worth of lists in /var/lib/apt/lists/. I see
these got blown away. It seems it is very easy to blow away things in
/var/lib/apt/lists/ .
I suppose I should make back ups of it. But then I'm sure restoring
backups to it would mess something else up.
please tell me [on this board] under what conditions will one blow
away a file on /var/lib/apt/lists/?
I must not have cdroms on the sources.list if I go on the network [modem man
me] to "update"?
I must not have the mirror on the sources.list if I want something
from the CDs?
I use wwwoffle. If I am offline I suppose I can this fool it into
thinking it [dselect] is getting its list. If not it will blow away
files in /var/lib/apt/lists/?
Maybe with the wwwoffle passifier in the baby's mouth, file deletions
won't happen again after the first time?
mainly i am tired of having to read the 8 cd's over and over for it to
make its fragile indexes.
Why must it delete things from /var/lib/apt/lists/ if it is unable to
get a newer version?
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