On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 23:27 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 23:03 +1000, david wrote: > > Do the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives represent all the installed > > packages on a standard Ubuntu system? > > Unless you've removed packages, the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives > represent every single package ever installed on that system, regardless > of whether a package was subsequently removed, or replaced by an updated > version. > > apt-get has a couple of commands for managing the package cache. apt-get > clean will clear out the cache completely. autoclean is a little more > intelligent. Check the apt-get man page for details. >
Thanks for that. From the man page: autoclean <snip> APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from being erased if it is set to off. How do I set APT::Clean-Installed? Google hasn't helped :( Is this what I'm looking for? > > Can I use this as input to apt-cacher for the purposes of subsequently > > updating another box? Eg, breezy to dapper. > > I guess you could seed apt-cacher with the contents of one machine's > package cache, yeah. But I've never used apt-cacher. :-) > > -- > Pete > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
