Bug#176398: marked as done (apt: tinker with sources.list and precious /var/lib/apt/lists/* gone)
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Package: tinker with sources.list and precious /var/lib/apt/lists/* gone
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/apt-get
Maybe the sources.list man page should tell the user that if he dares
commenting some current lines, his hours of modem time or cdrom
inserting, pulling in things for /var/lib/apt/lists/, will go up in
smoke, and apparently for no good reason. I took them out of
sources.list for a quick trial of something, why did you have to blow
them away... can't other programs see if a line is in sources.list
etc. instead of using the state of the directory?
Anyways, a workaround should be mentioned, other than simply telling
them to get a caching proxy like wwwoffle. [what about the CD's then still.]
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library
-- no debconf information
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:41:55 -0400
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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Subject: man apt-get
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--list-cleanup
This option defaults to on, use --no-list-cleanup to turn it
off. When on apt-get will automatically manage the contents of
/var/lib/apt/lists to ensure that obsolete files are erased.
The only reason to turn it off is if you frequently change your
source list. Configuration Item: APT::Get::List-Cleanup.
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