Re: Reducing the size of apt-caches

[Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net>]

Hello Ryan,

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 03:36:23PM -0700, Ryan Finnie wrote:
> for i in /var/lib/apt/lists/*_{Release,Packages,Sources}; do >$i;
> touch -t 198103190000.00 $i; done; apt-get check
> 
> Also, recently apt's new diff system horribly breaks when this is
> applied.  It has to be disabled.  Put this in
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10disablepdiffs:
> 
> // Apt dies a messy death when PDiffs are on and release scripts have been 
> run
> Acquire::PDiffs "false";

Thanks a lot for these hints, I applied them to my build scripts. :-)

There are probably many more things that I do in a more difficult way
than they could be done.  ;-)

Regards
-Klaus