Debian Bug report logs - #32919
apt: wish: when not enough disk space, incremental install : speedup!

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Subject: apt: wish:  when not enough disk space, incremental install : speedup!
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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

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