After another test it seems that "apt-get download" doesn't use an advantage from the caches (partial and non-partial) as this example shows:
root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get install adwaita-icon-theme-full --reinstall Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8861 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB] 55% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 4894 kB/8861 kB 55%]^C root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get download adwaita-icon-theme-full Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB] 2% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 178 kB/8861 kB 2%]^C root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get install adwaita-icon-theme-full --reinstall Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8861 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB] Fetched 3376 kB in 3s (1029 kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed (Reading database ... 92319 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../adwaita-icon-theme-full_3.14.0-2ubuntu7_all.deb ... Unpacking adwaita-icon-theme-full (3.14.0-2ubuntu7) over (3.14.0-2ubuntu7) ... root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get download adwaita-icon-theme-full Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main adwaita-icon-theme-full all 3.14.0-2ubuntu7 [8861 kB] 7% [1 adwaita-icon-theme-full 659 kB/8861 kB 7%]^C I'm wondering why "apt-get download" does then depend on the cache. Or maybe "apt-get download" could be enhanced to use advantages of the caches and fallback to use no cache if something went wrong. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425662 Title: "apt-get download" fails if /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is not accessible To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1425662/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
