[patch] create dirs

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 11:38 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the patch below changes the configuration to create the systems dirs apt
> > presumes to exist based on its configurations.
> > 
> > I presume this patch to be a bit controversial, be cause several of
> > these dirs currently can be changed at run-time, while this approach
> > assumes them to be hard-coded at configuration time.
> 
> No controversy here. This is one of those little things that has annoyed
> me for ages (but haven't gotten around to do anything about it) :
> "bootstrapping" apt from sources is way too cumbersome at the moment
> when you have to create all those directories manually. Those playing
> with oddball setups can create the directories by themselves, this
> serves the majority of users very well I think.
> 
> This doesn't yet create a fully working setup though, cache and statedir
> need more directories:
> /var/cache/apt/
>                archives/
>                         partial/
>                genpkglist/
>                gensrclist/
> /var/lib/apt/
>              lists/
>                    partial/
>              
> I extended your patch a bit and added those. Also I removed
> the /etc/apt/gpg directory because that's not an "official" directory at
> all, it's only used by the optional gpg-import script from contrib/ and
> it's not a very good idea anyway (both the location and the way
> gpg-import works, need to replace that with something saner some day). 
> 
> So, applied with slight modifications. Thank you! :)

Indeed thanks !Ã

Now one can remove /var/cache/apt without making apt unusable.

Kind regards,
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