On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:13:27PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello Julien, > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:33:52AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:41:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:36:45PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:30:38PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > > > Package: apt > > > > > Version: 0.8.15.10 > > > > > Severity: important > > > > > > > > > > This machine was installed last year and is running testing since. For > > > > > a time, I was wondering why /var/cache/apt/archives was not growing as > > > > > it did on other (older) machines. After searching I finally nailed it > > > > > down to > > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918 Jun 30 2011 /etc/cron.daily/apt > > > > > > > > > > (I removed the executable bit to verify that it was indeed the cause). > > > > > Ever since I did this, no longer files are deleted. > > > > > > > > > > I never touched this file and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic does not > > > > > exist on my system. According to the comments, nothing should be > > > > > deleted automatically: > > > > > > > > Do you have unattended-upgrades or update-notifier-common installed? > > > > > > rc unattended-upgrades 0.74.3 > > > automatic installation of security upgrades > > > ii update-notifier-common 0.99.3debian10 > > > Files shared between update-notifier and adept > > > > > > I haven't investigated them, though and did not manually install them, > > > probably installed as part of a task during d-i. > > > > But that's the explanation for the problem, as update-notifier-common > > installs 20archive which contains: > > > > APT::Archives::MaxAge "30"; > > APT::Archives::MinAge "2"; > > APT::Archives::MaxSize "500"; > > There was no mention of "20archive" in /etc/cron.daily/apt, thus I did > not check that. (And yes, I have that) > > So there are two (three) bugs at present: > a) /etc/cron.daily/apt does not mention 20archive [minor] > > b) update-notifier-common is installed in a default install and > deletes files without prompting the user about it [important] > > And maybe > c) Some other errors in /etc/cron.daily/apt, as stated in my initial > mail. > > > > And thanks for the *ultra fast* reply, probably the fastest I ever > > > experienced for a bug report. > > > > I probably just checked e-mails when yours came in, so I answered it > > directly. > > Then this was perfect timing, I guess :-)) > > Unless you object I'll clone and reassign in the next days (probably > tomorrow).
OK. No problem. I don't know whether I'll upload a new version of update-notifier for wheezy, though; we have switched to PackageKit anyway for default GNOME installations (so there's not that much sense in keeping update-notifier at all). -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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