Re: dselect and delete archived .debs - no
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:52:02PM -0400, Doug Fields wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > man apt.conf
> >In short: Put the line 'DSelect::Clean "never";' in /etc/apt/apt.conf.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Just FYI, on my woody system, I put it into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
> and that did the trick.
>
> That file was created by the debconf package, but adding the line you
> suggest works. As usual, I was unable to find anything about apt.conf.d in
> the apt.conf man page, but it's obvious that it was turned into a directory
> for ease of maintenance via the whole apt method (just like all the other
> .d directories).
apt.conf.d is mainly there so that packages can create their own
apt.conf segments in it and not have to worry too much about merging
them with those of other packages. I'd recommend that you remove that
line from /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf again, create a file called
/etc/apt/apt.conf, and put it there; otherwise you'll probably have to
deal with annoying messages from dpkg about merging your configuration
every time you upgrade debconf.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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