Bug#55044: marked as done (Simultaneous download, unpack and delete option for small hard drives)
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.15
Severity: wishlist
Greetings,
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
making a list of packages to upgrade/install, and then doing "apt-get
install" on each of them, then remove the archives, until there is
enough room to get all of the packages into /var/cache.
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?
Would it at all be possible to add an option to download and unpack
simultaneously, or download in chunks of packages? Alternatively, could
the apt package cache go in /usr, so /var or root doesn't have to be
massively inflated just to handle the packages?
Thanks,
--
Adam Powell http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/
Thomas B. King Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering
77 Massachusetts Ave. Rm. 4-117 Phone (617) 452-2086
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Fax (617) 253-5418
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:52:55 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
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To: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>, 55044-done@bugs.debian.org
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Subject: Re: Bug#55044: Simultaneous download, unpack and delete option for small hard drives
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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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