Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives
On a related topic, everything I've installed from
potato-proposed-updates is left in /var/cache/apt/archives by
apt-move. What do I have to do in apt-move.conf to fix this?
On Oct 4, Steve Simons (steve@kinder-scout.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Can someone assist me please - I have .deb files left over in my
> archives
> folder even though I've apt-moved to a local mirrors folder on CDROM,
> changing myapt-move.conf each time as appropriate. For example, my
> sources.list contains -
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
>
> That's all; I've installed potato, kernel 2.2.17pre6 and X from the
> debian
> site, and helix-gnome from helix's site. I did an apt-move for both
> hierarchies (potato from debian and unstable from helixcode) and each
> time
> files were moved. However, I have files left over in the
> /var/cache/apt/archives folder such as xmms_1.2.3-helix1_i386.deb and
> rep-gtk_0.14-helix2_i386.deb, even though I've specified delete=yes in
> apt-move.conf. I'm concerned that in the event of a disaster, these
> files
> won't be available.
>
> Point me in the right direction please?
>
>
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