Re: huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

2001-07-27 Thread John Foster
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:13:18PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I fear this question will have an embarassing answer, but I just > > found a large file tree in /var/tmp/filexQ70qA on my Debian Woody > > system. The contents seem to be some f

Re: huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:13:18PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I fear this question will have an embarassing answer, but I just > found a large file tree in /var/tmp/filexQ70qA on my Debian Woody > system. The contents seem to be some form of the Debian packages > database.

huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I fear this question will have an embarassing answer, but I just found a large file tree in /var/tmp/filexQ70qA on my Debian Woody system. The contents seem to be some form of the Debian packages database. filexQ70qA/ contains a huge number of directiories (~ 5000--BTW, that takes a while to list