Re: Bug#55044: Simultaneous download, unpack and delete option for small hard drives
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> I've installed or upgraded on a couple of machines with small hard
> drives or root/var partitions, and apt's behavior of downloading all
> packages before unpacking anything is most annoying. I usually end up
This has been a very long standing wishlist..
> It's funny- for 99% of its functionality, /var doesn't need to be
> anywhere near as big as it needs to for apt. Likewise for root, which
> /var is placed in by default when there are just two partitions. So why
> does the apt package cache go in /var?
Actually for what var is tasked for in the FHS it can get huge. The proper
FHS defined place for what APT does is /var, other things like mailspools,
databases, etc all belong in /var.
You can set the cache location either by using a symlink or using the
Dir::Cache::Archives="/usr/foo" config option (see the man page)
Jason
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