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

[Dave Witbrodt]

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.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-4s13990.090723.desktop.uvesafb (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ia32-apt-get depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ia32-libs-tools               22         Tools for converting i386 debs for

Versions of packages ia32-apt-get recommends:
ii  fakeroot                      1.12.4     Gives a fake root environment

ia32-apt-get suggests no packages.

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