On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > I've installed or upgraded on a couple of machines with small hard > drives or root/var partitions, and apt's behavior of downloading all > packages before unpacking anything is most annoying. I usually end up
This has been a very long standing wishlist.. > It's funny- for 99% of its functionality, /var doesn't need to be > anywhere near as big as it needs to for apt. Likewise for root, which > /var is placed in by default when there are just two partitions. So why > does the apt package cache go in /var? Actually for what var is tasked for in the FHS it can get huge. The proper FHS defined place for what APT does is /var, other things like mailspools, databases, etc all belong in /var. You can set the cache location either by using a symlink or using the Dir::Cache::Archives="/usr/foo" config option (see the man page) Jason
