On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:40 +0800, Magicloud wrote: > Hello, > > When I used aptitude, I noticed that aptitude does not have > an error handling mechanism. When I `aptitude update`, if the network > is broken (like dns problem, route problem), it can not connect to the > server, so it reports error, and clean up local apt record. If I > stupidly `aptitude autoclean` then, all my debs are gone. It is doing error handling: If it can't reach that server, there's no point in considering it a valid source. If you have no valid sources, there's no current packages. It's working as designed. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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