Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In 9ef66fac1002102000u63567764s84a867b7376c4...@mail.gmail.com, Albretch Mueller wrote: ... GRUB 2 should be able to find your kernel based on filesystem UUID Boyd, how am I gona know the filesystem UUID of

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ I get those what are you really trying to do? questions all the time. Let me start by explaining to you, why I do things in a certain way ~ I love live CDs and use them all the time. I carry one of them, my pen drive and/or my external micro drive almost everywhere in one of my pockets. I am

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,10.Feb.10, 18:56:49, Albretch Mueller wrote: ~ I get those what are you really trying to do? questions all the time. Let me start by explaining to you, why I do things in a certain way It is not rare that when given the *real* problem a different solution is found which is

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-10 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-10 13:56:49, Albretch Mueller wrote: ~ I get those what are you really trying to do? questions all the time. Let me start by explaining to you, why I do things in a certain way ~ I love live CDs and use them all the time. I carry one of them, my pen drive and/or my external micro

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
Googling debian live cd persist shows: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Custom_Install Purpose Do a custom install of Debian Live on a removable flash drive or hard disc with a persistent home directory or entire root filesystem, and create a partition for sharing documents or

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ I did strace the process run by the script ~ strace -e trace=open,read,write -s 8192 -o debug.webserver.txt sh ./ri08.sh ~ but I can not see what is producing the (21: Is a directory) error ~ apt-get update -o RootDir=/media/sdb2/inst/sw/deb -o

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 15:10:16 Albretch Mueller wrote: My whole point is that you can not assume a certain dir structure once you plug the micro drive I can. If you can't, you are doing it wrong. :P Seriously, if you can get the BIOS to load the bootloader from the USB device, GRUB

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-10 Thread Albretch Mueller
... GRUB 2 should be able to find your kernel based on filesystem UUID ~ Boyd, how am I gona know the filesystem UUID of a machine I have never used? ;-) ~ Also from their own manual: ~ http://grub.enbug.org/Manual ~ UUID entries - Test these first. They are automatically generated by some

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 9ef66fac1002102000u63567764s84a867b7376c4...@mail.gmail.com, Albretch Mueller wrote: ... GRUB 2 should be able to find your kernel based on filesystem UUID Boyd, how am I gona know the filesystem UUID of a machine I have never used? ;-) The only filesystems you need (for booting and

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 9ef66fac1002060513q7316011fvececd062063ad...@mail.gmail.com, Albretch Mueller wrote: ~ After taking snapshots of my file system before and after installations using apt-get, I noticed lots of files in: ~ /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...} Right, that's where dpkg keeps information

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 9ef66fac1002070041q10da895en25d5be9efb4ed...@mail.gmail.com, Albretch Mueller wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat,06.Feb.10, 22:37:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-07 Thread Albretch Mueller
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat,06.Feb.10, 22:37:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote:  How is it being set to

local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ After taking snapshots of my file system before and after installations using apt-get, I noticed lots of files in: ~ /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...} ~ relating to the files I installed, but those files I had grabbed locally like this: ~ _SL=some partial local repo/directory apt-get

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote: How is it being set to beging with if I don't explicitly use dpkg to install packages? Only dpkg installs packages. APT just takes care of resolving dependencies and downloading the apropiate .deb files which are then passed to dpkg.

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote:  How is it being set to beging with if I don't explicitly use dpkg to install packages? Only dpkg installs packages. APT just takes care of resolving

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,06.Feb.10, 22:37:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote:  How is it being set to beging with if I don't explicitly use dpkg to install packages? Only dpkg