Bug#195018: Woody's default APT::Cache-limit too small to upgrade
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:18:53AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> FWIW, this seems to be close to happening now. I just got hit with it
> on a freshly installed woody system with the following sources.list,
> which is not very extravagant:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main
> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>
> The default cache is still barely large enough if the two "unstable"
> lines are "testing" instead, but if packages propagate from unstable
> to testing faster than others get dropped, things will get
> interesting.
Your test uses the sum of woody+unstable. We only have a real problem if
sarge (alone) is too large, which I do not think is even close to being true
at this time.
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- mdz
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