Re: Problem sharing apt cache through NFS

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:12, Andre Costa wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:57:06 +0300
> Panu Matilainen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > You can't separate the lockfile without patching apt, and even if you
> > move the lockfile someplace else .. it doesn't make much sense to have
> > local lockfiles since the locking will be messed up anyway.
> 
> Thks, I thought so -- it would cause more evil than good...
> 
> > As a last resort/temporary workaround you could run apt with
> > 'Debug::NoLocking=true" to completely avoid locking the archive
> > directory but that might cause some "interesting" effects if two hosts
> > are trying to simultaneously download the same file :)
> 
> Thks, that worked =) Yeah, I understand this would lead to weird things,
> but I guess this is manageable -- updates are only performed manually on
> the clients, so it won't be hard to avoid any upgrades being done on
> the "master" server.

Ok since the updates are done manually it should be quite safe to do
that.

> 
> I don't intend to do this (I want this to be really a _temporary_
> workaround), but, just to improve my apt management skills, how would I
> put it on/etc/apt/apt.conf? Would it be
> 
> Debug {
> 	NoLocking "true";
> };
> 
> at the top level?

Yeah, that or
Debug::NoLocking "true";

Both accomplish the same thing, the Foo { Bar "xxx"; }; format is really
only beneficial when you need to set more than one Foo-option.

	- Panu -