On Saturday 19 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
I see no reason for leaving .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives on a
fresh installation, so let's run apt-get clean before reboot.
This has been suggested and discussed before. IIRC (but I may be mistaken)
Joey has always been against it.
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
The main reason IIRC is that leaving the packages makes it unnecessary
to download them again if part of e.g. tasksel fails for whatever reason
and the user has to install some packages manually [...].
Note that the above argument is only really valid
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Frans Pop wrote:
Any disk space savings are IMO illusionary as the cache will fill up
again anyway during later updates and any system that does not have
sufficient disk space to hold a decent package cache will also have
serious problems during later stable updates.
I
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl):
The main reason IIRC is that leaving the packages makes it unnecessary to
download them again if part of e.g. tasksel fails for whatever reason and
the user has to install some packages manually (after ignoring that
error - which is a real option as
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Maybe, for more corner cases where keepign the cache would be
good, could we have a low priority option (or a preseed-only choice)
to *not* clean the cache?
I don't think it has anything to do with user choice or preseeding. Making
this a
[Frans Pop]
The only reason I see to keep the cache is when some packages (after
base-installer) fail to install. If we want to cover that case it should
be detected automatically by testing the result of tasksel [1]. The final
cleanup could be omitted in that case.
Sound like a good
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[1] Checking installation of packages using apt-install is much
harder to do as there are many different calls and failure may be
expected in some cases. It also gains much less as their total size
is much less.
I believe it would not be
Hello,
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote:
[Frans Pop]
The only reason I see to keep the cache is when some packages (after
base-installer) fail to install. If we want to cover that case it should
be detected automatically by testing the result of
Package: finish-install
Version: 2.23
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I see no reason for leaving .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives on a
fresh installation, so let's run apt-get clean before reboot.
OK to apply?
Index: finish-install.d/30cleanup
Hello Martin,
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote:
Package: finish-install
Version: 2.23
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I see no reason for leaving .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives on a
fresh installation, so let's run apt-get clean before reboot.
[Martin Michlmayr]
I see no reason for leaving .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives on
a fresh installation, so let's run apt-get clean before reboot.
OK to apply?
See my comment in #586434. If it is done, please make sure it is done
as late as possible. Doing it late in finish-install.d
* Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com [2010-06-19 19:42]:
See my comment in #586434. If it is done, please make sure it is done
as late as possible. Doing it late in finish-install.d should not as
far as I can see affect the Debian Edu installation, while doing it
earlier will.
I've done it
[Martin Michlmayr]
I've done it after you get the Installation complete message.
Can you confirm that this is late enough?
Yes. The last Debian Edu script is at 13debian-edu-profile-udeb
before the installation complete message. The LTSP build is done in
its own udeb between pkgsel and
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