Subject: apt: wish: when not enough disk space, incremental install : speedup!
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:50:25 +0100 (CET)
Package: apt
Version: 0.1.10
hi
if I try to upgrade to frozen,
I need to download 90Mb worth of packages, and I dont have that much space
in /var ; so, apt-get aborts!
it would be much better if there was an option such that apt-get
would download one .deb file at a time,
and install them (and delete the .deb file);
moreover, it could download a .deb file while
it was installing another one, so this would speed up the upgrading
if some files have dependencies such that they must be installed
at the same time, it could just unpack the ones it cant install,
and then configure them when they are all available
(but, it would be not wise to unpack ALL .deb files and then
install/configure them all: indeed, unpacking sucks a lot of disk space!
that I , for one, dont have!)
by the way, I would like that apt-get would always delete the .deb files
that it has installed from the /var/cache space:
sometimes I forget to give the apt-get clean command
and I leave my /var space too full !
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux Tonelli 2.0.34 #2 Thu Jul 9 10:57:48 EST 1998 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU Libc: shared libraries
ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-4 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/debian dists/proposed-updates/
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
--- End /etc/apt/sources.list
Subject: Re: Bug#32919: apt: this bug is still annoying users
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:46:18 -0800
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:25:40PM +0100, Andreas Kotes wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.14
> Severity: normal
> Followup-For: Bug #32919
>
>
> This problem did not go away, but should. some users run into this all
> of the time, and are unable to provide patches themselves.
This is not a bug; it's a feature request, and one for a feature that I do
not think is worth the effort and complexity. If you want to do incremental
upgrades, you can do them yourself with "apt-get install".
--
- mdz
Subject: Re: Bug#32919: apt: this bug is still annoying users
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:50:29 +0100
Heya,
* Matt Zimmerman <[email protected]> [20040122 13:08]:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:25:40PM +0100, Andreas Kotes wrote:
> > This problem did not go away, but should. some users run into this all
> > of the time, and are unable to provide patches themselves.
>
> This is not a bug; it's a feature request, and one for a feature that I do
> not think is worth the effort and complexity. If you want to do incremental
> upgrades, you can do them yourself with "apt-get install".
well, let's call it usability request. it IS reasonable, and doing
apt-get install by hand isn't feasible with todays size of debian.
Count
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