Ross Boylan wrote:
> Currently, apt's cache is in /usr/var/cache/apt.
You must have overridden the default location. That location above is
not a normal one.
> I would like to move that back to /var/cache/apt, thanks to new disk
> space.
Remove your customization and it will return to the default location.
> I recall some problems with this when I originally moved it, I think
> because some other files had pointers to the location. That was quite
> awhile ago. Does anybody know if it is safe to make the switch simply
> by editing
> Dir {
> Cache "/usr/var/cache/apt";
> };
> in apt.conf and mv'ing the files?
Yes, it should be safe to do that. I have done that myself. You will
need to 'apt-get update' afterward to resync the lists. When I do
this I see warnings once through before things sync and then it is
clean afterward.
> By "problems" I mean that apt starts downloading all the debs again,
> seemingly not recognizing that it has them.
Hmm... I don't see that. Did you modify "Dir::State::Lists" too?
Bob
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