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Bug#188364: apt should handle nonexistent cache directory gracefully



Hi apt maintainers!

On 2003-04-09 17:36 +0100, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object

I just noticed the same problem because I wiped my /var/cache to clean
up. According to FHS 5.2 [1] applications must regenerate their stuff
below /var/cache without complaining.

AFAIK FHS bugs are now to be considered serious, so I'm thinking about
raising the severity. In any case wishlist is not appropriate since
this is a real bug.

It also has a patch (I just tagged the bug), so can you please
consider applying it to fix this by the Sarge release?

Thanks and have a nice day!

Martin

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARCACHEAPPLICATIONCACHEDATA

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Martin Pitt                 Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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