Re: Package Pool Proposal
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Re: Package Pool Proposal
- To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Package Pool Proposal
- From: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:28:16 -0500
- In-Reply-To: <384EAE27.E577173C@xs4all.be>; from Filip Van Raemdonck on Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:14:47PM +0100
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- References: <u1h903840h5.fsf@pusey.mit.edu> <19991206101504.A5983@cmc.net> <1999-12-06-19-40-11+trackit+sam@debian.org> <19991207091926.D21313@taz.net.au> <19991206172928.F19105@justice.loyola.edu> <19991207114758.F21313@taz.net.au> <19991207055743.I19105@justice.loyola.edu> <19991208092102.A29728@taz.net.au> <19991208063528.J19105@justice.loyola.edu> <384EAE27.E577173C@xs4all.be>
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:14:47PM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> Maybe you just don't have enough hdspace on a machine and can't let
> apt-get from a http (or ftp) source fill /var/cache/apt with the
> packages you want to install (nfs mounted mirror is a 'file:/' URI and
> doesn't do this).
That's a fair reason at the moment. Fixing apt so it downloads in stages
is a better long-term solution.
--
Mike Stone
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