On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Jason Neudorf wrote: > Mounting the "archive" directory from nfs does not easily succeed. The lock > file cannot be grabbed. I've made a grungy work-around on my machine by > making the lock file a symlink to /tmp, but this is obviously a clumsy and > dangerous hack. Could a less-stringent form of locking be made?
Unfortunately there is some unresolved problem with the Debian.. Can you try running rpc.rstatd on your NFS server and see if that helps? > It would also be nice to delete obsolete packages (ie, ones with newer > versionfrom the cache (which I would rather not "clean" because of the > slowness of the link). APT v3 has just such a feature, it is called 'autoclean' it purges only things that are uninstallable. Jason
