Re: nfs mounted archives
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Jason Neudorf wrote:
> Mounting the "archive" directory from nfs does not easily succeed. The lock
> file cannot be grabbed. I've made a grungy work-around on my machine by
> making the lock file a symlink to /tmp, but this is obviously a clumsy and
> dangerous hack. Could a less-stringent form of locking be made?
Unfortunately there is some unresolved problem with the Debian..
Can you try running rpc.rstatd on your NFS server and see if that helps?
> It would also be nice to delete obsolete packages (ie, ones with newer
> versionfrom the cache (which I would rather not "clean" because of the
> slowness of the link).
APT v3 has just such a feature, it is called 'autoclean' it purges only
things that are uninstallable.
Jason
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