I am not on the list, please keep me in CC. I'm using apt in a way that works for me. I have a local mirror and apt was setup to use /debian/apt-<arch> for various apt files (like sources.list, the /var/lib/apt/lists, /var/cache/apt, ...). This allows me to never need to do apt-get update.
The question I have is on the list dir (Dir::State::lists). I have created links like this: _debian_dists_sid_Release -> /debian/dists/sid/Release My sources list is: deb file:/debian sid main non-free contrib deb-src file:/debian sid main non-free contrib My question is, is it possible for apt to use another name. For instance, instead of apt using _debian_dists_sid_Release, use _dists_sid_Release or just _sid_Release. I checked the code, but I don't understand c++ well enough to know what it was doing. If my understanding is correct, apt wants to use(create) a name that is uniq. This would mean that names like _dists_sid_Release or _sid_Release would no longer be uniq. In my case, this would work fine as I have a seperate apt directory for each arch and thus would be uniq for me. The point of asking this is to beable to move /debian to another location/mount point and it all just work. Maybe another question would be, can relative paths be used in sources.list. This would fix the problem for me as well. Another thought would be to never use the lists directory since the files are already in the tree. Apt already does this for packages. If anyone is interested in how I have set this up, feel free to ask. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130108005712.ga23...@animx.eu.org
