-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 January 2004 18:23, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:41:24PM +0200, Martin Tsachev wrote: > > If I move some files from /var/cache/apt/archives and symlink to them I > > can uninstall and then install again a package only if the parent > > directory does not contain spaces. If there are spaces apt will fail to > > quote the filename and dpkg errors. > > Can you show me an example of what you mean? I do not think that apt > would dereference the symlinks at all.
apt-get install mc installed, I get /var/cache/apt/archives/mc-something.deb now move mc-something.deb in /data/backup/debian 2004-01-16/ ln -sf "/backup/debian 2004-01-16/mc-something.deb" /var/cache/apt/archives/ mc-something.deb apt-get remove mc Now if you do apt-get install mc again it will fail. E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the mc package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch) - -- Martin Tsachev http://martin.f2o.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFACBi4ypytlz9Py3wRAvAZAJ0eRvBVRgxAgiANs7v4HFKub4sDzACgmTXe LlorjK70w8iJV6gGZAFzLmk= =QUVQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
