Bug#356792: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#356792: share one apt cache

Martin Michlmayr tbm at cyrius.com
Tue Mar 14 16:14:31 UTC 2006


* Roger Leigh <rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org> [2006-03-14 16:07]:
> I was advised (IIRC by dato or vorlon) that this wasn't a good idea,
> due to the shared locks, which can cause builds to fail waiting on the
> APT cache lock.  They recommended using a webcache such as SQUID to

Ah, true.  For some reason I thought the lock file was outside of the
archives dir (i.e. in /var/cache/apt/).  Feel free to close.
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Martin Michlmayr
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