In <9ef66fac1002070041q10da895en25d5be9efb4ed...@mail.gmail.com>, Albretch Mueller wrote: >On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat,06.Feb.10, 22:37:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Albretch Mueller wrote: >>> >> How is it being set to beging with if I don't explicitly use dpkg to >>> >> install packages? >>> > >>> > Only dpkg installs packages. APT "just" takes care of resolving >>> > dependencies and downloading the apropiate .deb files which are then >>> > passed to dpkg. >>> >>> I see but I can't find out how to change that directory, which is >>> what I need ;-) >> >> What exactly are you trying to achieve? Maybe there is a better way. > > Well, as I said, I need to reset the default "/var/lib/dpkg" >directory to be used by apt-get/dpkg
As Andrei suggests, this is a bad idea. So, we'd like to attempt to solve your real problem without executing this bad plan. >and the reason why I need to do >so is because if you are using a liveCD then that directory will >actually be: >~ > "<ramdisk>/var/lib/dpkg" >~ > which eats on your system's resources badly. Feel free to mount this from some other read-write location. > Also dpkg uses those >folders as kind of caches They aren't caches. If you delete them, dpkg will no longer have access to the information... >(as if you were downloading files off a >network/the Internet), but if you have those files on your local file >system then that strategy doesn't make much sense No, dpkg doesn't know how anything about /etc/apt/sources.list. In fact, it has no method *at all* of locating .deb files that aren't passed on the command-line. As such, /var/lib/dpkg is required for dpkg to operate on installed packages. If you remove information from there, your package manager will "forget" it. For a great example, move /var/lib/dpkg/status to some other location (you'll want to but it back later) and then try installing the simplest of packages. > There should be a way to somehow change that directory, without >poking into the source files It's unlikely to be useful, but it is already documented in manual section 5, page "apt.conf". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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