Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 0.93.1+nmu1 Severity: normal Tags: patch
Hi, In the past week, my filesystem finally filled up due to 6GB of archives in /var/cache/apt/archives. I identified unattended-upgrades as the cause of this problem, as it didn't purge old packages (hello texlive!) that it downloaded previously, even when there were many versions of the same packages. unattended-upgrades doesn't document how to work around this problem at all, in itself. There is, however, sparse documentation here and there that indicate there are ways of doing this with: // Do "apt-get autoclean" every n-days (0=disable) APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "7"; This is documented in: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.regular-upgrades.html It seem important that the default configuration also documents this feature, if not just enable it by default. I filed a pull request upstream for this: https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/pull/68 A. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on: ii apt 1.4.7 ii apt-utils 1.4.7 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii lsb-release 9.20161125 ii python3 3.5.3-1 ii python3-apt 1.4.0~beta3 ii ucf 3.0036 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1 Versions of packages unattended-upgrades recommends: ii anacron 2.3-24 ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-128+b1 Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests: ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-4 ii msmtp-mta [mail-transport-agent] 1.6.6-1 ii needrestart 2.11-3 -- debconf information excluded
