> The deb import script from apt-cacher, when importing debs, first tries > to make a hardlink (see `man ln`), and only if that fails, creates a > regular file copy. As a result, it is very impressive to see, that > even though an import of over 60 thousands of packages has completed, > the amount of free disk space did not reduce at all.
Approx needs to have all the files in its cache owned by the approx user, so it can garbage-collect them, compress and decompress them, etc. That won't work if some files are hardlinks to other files, because they'll be owned by another user (typically root). The approx-import program won't have permission to chown the link, and even if it did (by remaining as root), that might break some other program that found *its* link now owned by approx. So I'm going to tag this wontfix and close it. Thanks for your other reports on approx-import; as you can tell, it's still new (just added in the previous version) and hasn't been used by many people yet. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
