Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:42:44PM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote:
> apt-get stores downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives.  you can
> clean these out using "apt-get clean".  I don't know whether apt-get
> will automatically clean out its cached packages when it need the space;

It will not.  It only cleans out the cache when explicitly told to do
so.

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