[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#539236: ia32-apt-get: Warn user that cache of '*.deb' files is relocated
Dave Witbrodt
dawitbro at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 30 01:47:19 UTC 2009
Package: ia32-apt-get
Version: 22
Severity: wishlist
I sometimes manually save known working copies of deb files from
/var/cache/apt/archives/
when updating Sid. Since switching to the 'ia32-apt-get' system, I
became confused about missing deb files for packages that were
recently installed. Tonight, I finally discovered (by accident) that
'ia32-apt-get' no longer uses '/var/cache/apt/archives' at all, but is
actually using '/var/cache/ia32-apt/archives'! So I had huge number
of packages that would have just been sitting in
'/var/cache/apt/archives' wasting space, while all new packages
were being cached elsewhere.
It would have been nice to have been warned about this in
'README.Debian', on the man pages, etc.
Thanks,
Dave W.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-4s13990.090723.desktop.uvesafb (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ia32-apt-get depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy
ii ia32-libs-tools 22 Tools for converting i386 debs for
Versions of packages ia32-apt-get recommends:
ii fakeroot 1.12.4 Gives a fake root environment
ia32-apt-get suggests no packages.
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