-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/08 08:39, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:09:18AM +0300, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> Not really. See #201842 and #479620. Unfortunately Daniel Burrows still >> didn't comment on them. Maybe he will show up here? > > The main reason I haven't touched those bugs is that there are many > more important things to work on. This behavior might be annoying when > it hits you, but the files that are wiped out are all cache files that > you can download from the network when your connection is re-established.
That does not take into consideration all the people who are still on dial-up. > A secondary reason is that I can't figure out what's going on, because > whenever I try taking my network down and running an update, my package > lists are still around afterwards. I've read over the code and it looks > to me like it only deletes the old package lists when it successfully > downloaded new ones. Until I get more of a clue to go on, this looks to > me like a way to waste a great deal of time. > > I put the apt-get and aptitude code up side-by-side and I can only see > one difference in the conditions they use to determine whether to clean > the lists. I don't see why this would matter (surely pkgAcquire::Run > returns Failure if files can't be downloaded?), but if there's anyone > who *can* reproduce this on demand, it would be interesting to know if > the attached patch helps. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhrkTsACgkQS9HxQb37XmcL/gCgj+/Up41fS5641mBxlQwCr6FA 1FEAoJqyoTr+zKQtwpsrYJ1x2nFN6OCF =AWsZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
