Hello! Recently I decided to upgrade my slink to potato. I have "a poorly connected" system at home, so I read /usr/doc/apt/offline.txt and decided to use proposed method. I have download all necessery packages and ... wrote the to CD-RW disk.
I was very disappointed by the fact I cannot upgrade my system form that disk. As you might guess apt-get complains about lock files. In my opinion lock files in this situation are not necessary as the source file system is readonly. Read only cache sounds strange but it was very convinient to use CD-RW in my case. I think it will be a useful patch. It must be a check like errno==EROFS after first open in GetLock and some changes in return code analysis in couple of places where GetLock is called. I wanted to send a working patch but find out that c++ is not installed. Thanks, Konstantin Kivi [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS. When I run apt-get --print-uris it complains about /var/cache/archives too small It is useful to know how much space I need and it is also useful to be able to run it from machine without enough disk space
