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Using cifs as mountpoint for apt archive
Posted by trakic on Wed 27 Oct 2010 at 09:25
My rootfs (squeeze/sid) is quite small on my embedded device so I have descided to use a CIFS mount point for storing a new deb packages.
After symlinking the propriate endpoints following error occured:
# apt-get dist-upgrade -d -y
E: Archives directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. - Acquire (75: Value too large for defined data type
My CIFS mount point looks like this:
//192.168.1.10/OpenShare/ on /mnt/nas01/OpenShare type cifs (rw,mand)
And symlink entry like this:
debian-nvu:/var/cache/apt# ls -laFh
total 39M
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 27 10:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4.0K May 28 21:50 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Oct 27 10:14 archives -> /mnt/nas01/OpenShare/debian/archives/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20K Oct 25 22:43 archives.orig/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24M Oct 10 2009 erl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14M Oct 27 04:09 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14M Oct 26 21:29 srcpkgcache.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Aug 22 2008 x-window-manager -> /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager*
I hope somebody can shed a light.
br.Admir Trakic, Copenhagen, Denmark
After symlinking the propriate endpoints following error occured:
# apt-get dist-upgrade -d -y
E: Archives directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. - Acquire (75: Value too large for defined data type
My CIFS mount point looks like this:
//192.168.1.10/OpenShare/ on /mnt/nas01/OpenShare type cifs (rw,mand)
And symlink entry like this:
debian-nvu:/var/cache/apt# ls -laFh
total 39M
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 27 10:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4.0K May 28 21:50 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Oct 27 10:14 archives -> /mnt/nas01/OpenShare/debian/archives/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20K Oct 25 22:43 archives.orig/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24M Oct 10 2009 erl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14M Oct 27 04:09 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14M Oct 26 21:29 srcpkgcache.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Aug 22 2008 x-window-manager -> /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager*
I hope somebody can shed a light.
br.Admir Trakic, Copenhagen, Denmark
Comments on this Entry
The error message says exactly what is wrong:
E: Archives directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. - Acquire (75: Value too large for defined data type
# mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
rjc
E: Archives directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. - Acquire (75: Value too large for defined data type
# mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
rjc
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The folder is already there with root persmissions, so that's why I find it hard to figure. I have guess i should add additional mount.cifs options.
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Yes I was going to say try creating the directory as well, I saw that error when I was working with my SheevaPlug. Not sure what the problem is there, but perhaps this will provide some insight: http://computingplugs.com/index.php/Fixing_apt-get
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Like I said previously partial directory was already there before apt-get was executed, so I'm still not able to download packages by using cifs mount point as repository for newcomming packages.
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FIXED: for some strange reason my cifs mount kept adding noexec,nosuid as mount option,so I had to exlicit add suitable mount options: exec,suid on my fstab entry.
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