I demand that Matt Zimmerman may or may not have written... > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:20:18PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >> I keep some around. I'd prefer better management of this, though: ATM all >> that I can do (with apt-get/aptitude) is remove all older versions or >> purge the cache.
> I use a dead simple cron.daily script which prunes packages with an atime > above a certain threshold. Hmm. That sounds useful; perhaps it, or something similar, should be in apt. Useful configuration options, AFAICS, would be atime or ctime (and, of course, a threshold) and/or disk space used or remaining. (Yes, I know. Something for me to do... now, if there's already a script which can be put to this use...) > It would be only slightly less trivial to move the packages into another > directory and run apt-ftparchive. Maybe... my use of apt-proxy on one of my machines gives me the option of cleaning the cache after an upgrade. I don't plan to do this, though ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... Smile... people will wonder what you've been up to.