If you do 'apt-get autoclean', this "removes package files that can no
longer be downloaded, and are largely useless."
-mk
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 08:59, c wrote:
> just to point out again automatic removal of old .deb's can lead to more
> hassle if you need to roll back to the previous version.....test....then
> clean.....
> ;)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sander Smeenk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "David Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: /var/cache/apt/archives
>
>
> > Quoting David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > > I'm relatively new to Debian, and I just discovered that I have
> > > accumulated over 1G of .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives. Can the
> > > contents of this directory be regularly wiped? Why isn't their a cron
> > > job to do this by default -- does one loose something?
> >
> > You can best run apt-get autoclean, it removes all .deb files that are
> > no longer on your system, or whose version is older than the one
> > currently installed.
> >
> > Also you can edit/create a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ called 99local
> > which holds the following:
> >
> > DSelect { Clean "auto" }
> >
> > to do the cleaning automaticaly after each time you use apt.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sander.
> >
> > --
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