This is really two questions about apt. First, how can I limit the amount of package archive that apt is allowed to keep around? I have an old system with only 50 MB of free disk space. It's running potato and I want to upgrade to woody via http (there's no CD drive). But if I do "apt-get dist-upgrade", apt will try to download way more than 50 MB of packages, will fill up the disk and the upgrade will fail and my system will probably be trashed.
The only thing I could find in the apt documentation was a passing reference to the config entry Dir::Cache::archives saying if I set it to a blank value, apt will not cache any archive files. Will a dist-upgrade still work if I do this? Is there a better way? Second, is there a way to make apt (or dpkg) fail gracefully if a partition fills up? I recently did a dist-upgrade upgrade from potato to woody (on a different system than described above). It completed without giving any indication of failure, but when I rebooted I got the dreaded "LI" prompt (instead of "LILO"). Only when I booted with a rescue disk did I discover that the root partition was 100% full. After a little panicked messing around, I finally trashed an old Windows partition (yay!) to get more space, repartitioned and installed woody from scratch. Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
