Re: Reducing the size of apt-caches

[Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:25:05AM -0700, Ryan Finnie wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net> wrote:
> >There are probably many more things that I do in a more difficult way
> >than they could be done.  ;-)

> Actually, I just remembered that my build script removes all files in
> /var/cache:
> (cd ${SOURCE}/var/cache; find . -type f | xargs -r rm)

You don't want to do that. The debconf database is in /var/cache. Yes,
I consider that a bug.

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Lionel