Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.0-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
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For keeping /var/cache/apt/archives sweetly small, I would like
to have a command to keep all package files for packages which
are installed and remove everything else. autoclean does too
little for me (leaving package files which are not installed) and
obviously clean does too much (I am quite often on dial-up so
I would love to have my package files for additional security).
Just to explain better what I mean I hacked together simple (and
dirty) script in Python to illustrate it. See attached.
Thanks,
Matej
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#!/usr/bin/python
"""Program to clean /var/cache/apt/archives folder from files for packages
which are not installed. It doesn't take any arguments.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK, THIS MAY HURT YOU!!!"""
# $Id: midclean.py,v 1.2 2005-11-23 06:00:36 matej Exp $
import os,re,sys
currentlyInstalledRaw = os.popen("aptitude search -F '%p %V' '~i'",
"r").readlines()
currentlyInstalled = [line.split() for line in currentlyInstalledRaw]
# currentlyInstalled is list of lists looking like this:
# [...,['zoem', '05-154-1']]
currNames = tuple([x[0] for x in currentlyInstalled])
currVersions = tuple([x[1] for x in currentlyInstalled])
currDir = os.getcwd()
os.chdir("/var/cache/apt/archives/")
packagesStoredNamesRaw = os.popen("ls *.deb").readlines()
packagesStoredNames = [[line.strip().split("_",2)[:2],line.strip()] \
for line in packagesStoredNamesRaw]
# packagesStoredNames is again list of lists looking like this:
# [...,[['zoem', '05-154-1'], 'zoem_05-154-1_i386.deb']]
for item in packagesStoredNames:
if not(item[0][0] in currNames) and not(item[0][1] in currVersions):
print "Removing %s." % item[1]
os.remove(item[1])
