Little script to automatically remount partitions ro/rw when installing, upgrading or erasing packages, inspired by this discussion: http://www.redhatlaiskiainen.org/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-April/msg00012.html Partitions to remount can be configured with Scripts::Remount::Partitions:: see remount.conf for example. Installation: cp remount.conf /etc/apt/apt.conf.d cp remount.lua /usr/lib/apt/scripts/