Re: How to get away with small /var partition

[Tom <tb.31123.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:40:17AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Why not?  'apt-get autoclean' will remove just _older_ versions of
> archives.  Not sure if there's a way to explicitly keep, say, no more
> than tree prior versions of a package, but I could see that being
> useful...

I use this scripts to move all my downloaded .debs into directories 
arranged by date they were obsoleted:

"x":::::

dt=`date +"%y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
sub=dists/latest/binary-i386
cd /mnt/apt
cd latest; if [[ `ls *%* 2>/dev/null | wc -l` -ne 0 ]]; then for x in 
*%*; do mv $x ${x/[0-9]\\%3a/}; done; fi; cd ..
echo Scanning Packages...
dpkg-scanpackages latest /dev/null > $sub/Packages
grep -Ex "Filename: latest/.+" $sub/Packages | sed "s/Filename: 
latest\/\(.*\)/\1/" > old/L$dt
pushd $sub
rm Packages.gz
gzip Packages
popd
mv latest $dt
mkdir latest
for x in `cat old/L$dt`; do mv $dt/$x latest; done
if [[ `ls $dt | wc -l` -eq 0 ]]; then rm -r $dt;
  else echo $dt `ls $dt | wc -l`; mv $dt old; fi


"u":::::
mv /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /mnt/apt/latest
apt-get clean
/mnt/apt/x
apt-get update