Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/apt-get The apt.conf man page and /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz give no way for the "partial" directory to be specified as a different place than Dir::Cache::Archives
#ls /var/tmp/*w3c* /var/tmp/w3c-markup-validator_0.6.1-1_all.deb # apt-get -o Dir::Cache::Archives=/var/tmp --print-uris install w3c-markup-validator Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libcgi-pm-perl libosp3c102 opensp wwwconfig-common The following NEW packages will be installed: libcgi-pm-perl libosp3c102 opensp w3c-markup-validator wwwconfig-common 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 218 not upgraded. E: Archive directory /var/tmp/partial is missing. E: The list of sources could not be read. make: *** [archi] Error 100 yes, one can mkdir /var/tmp/partial however, consider other situations, e.g. read-only media. BTW a partial dir. on readonly media isnt too good also. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library -- no debconf information
