On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:41:57 +0200 Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote: > 1/ You will put files there but what happens if "apt-get clean" is run in > a cron job while you are running debootstrap ? > > 2/ APT stores files there with a naming policy of its own (for instance > it adds the epoch to the version) and you are not respecting that policy > and you can run into trouble due to this. APT is able to clean up files > it puts there, but it might not be able to clean up files put there by > others in particular when their name is not consistent with what it uses. > > 3/ debootstrap ought to be usable on any machine to bootstrap any > distribution, what happens if /var/cache/apt/archives contains ubuntu > packages (same name, same version, recompiled for ubuntu) and you want to > bootstrap debian and not ubuntu ? You will remove the pre-existing file > and put there a Debian package, breaking APT's cache. > > For all those reasons, I'm really sure that it is not a good idea > to enable that directory as default --cache-dir.
Thanks, 1 is rare, but 2 and 3 sound reasonable. Then, can we make any directories for cache option by default? -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.org/iijmio-mail.jp
