[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#539236: Bug#539236: ia32-apt-get: Warn user that cache of '*.deb' files is relocated

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro at sbcglobal.net> writes:

> Package: ia32-apt-get
> Version: 22
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I sometimes manually save known working copies of deb files from
>
>     /var/cache/apt/archives/
>
> when updating Sid.  Since switching to the 'ia32-apt-get' system, I
> became confused about missing deb files for packages that were
> recently installed.  Tonight, I finally discovered (by accident) that
> 'ia32-apt-get' no longer uses '/var/cache/apt/archives' at all, but is
> actually using '/var/cache/ia32-apt/archives'!  So I had huge number
> of packages that would have just been sitting in 
> '/var/cache/apt/archives' wasting space, while all new packages 
> were being cached elsewhere.
>
> It would have been nice to have been warned about this in 
> 'README.Debian', on the man pages, etc.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dave W.

Do you think people would mind if ia32-apt-get puts its downloads in
/var/cache/apt/archives? The debs are unaltered so they are perfectly
useable by the normal apt/aptitude, at least those of the native
architecture.

I will have to work out the locking so apt-get and ia32-apt-get can't
run in parallel but I think sharing the cache might be best all
around.

MfG
        Goswin