RE: Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matej Cepl [mailto:ceplm@seznam.cz]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:25 PM
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?
>
> Eric Cooper wrote:
> > You don't need to keep any .debs after they're installed; you can
> > delete the entire cache (with "apt-get clean" for example). The
> > important information about your installation is kept in
> > /var/lib/dpkg/.
>
> This is one big celebration of misunderstanding -- I know
> very well about
> aptitude clean (deletes everything; too much, I want to have
> .deb files for
> all currently installed programs on my notebook -- I have not
> always ideal
> connection to the Internet -- read dial-up) or aptitude
> autoclean (leaves
> anything which is download*able*). I would love to have something in
> between -- something less aggressive than clean and more
> aggressive than
> autoclean. If I won't find something better, I will hack
> something together
> in Python.
>
> Do you know about something better, please?
>
> Matej
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am I misunderstanding the option specified here, copied from apt-get
manpage:
autoclean
Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of
retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes package
files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. This
allows a cache to be maintained over a long period without it growing
out of control. The configuration option APT::Clean-Installed will
prevent installed packages from being erased if it is set to off.
Will this configuration option not do what you want? OR, will it keep
everything, installed included? If it won't work, it would be a whole
lot less effort to get a bigger hard drive ;)
-C
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