Re: /var/archive

[Gerard Robin <g.robin3@free.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:38:42PM +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
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> Subject: /var/archive
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> Hi,
>
> I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10 years on Mandriva, so a bit of a
> newbie here.
>
> Can anyone tell me what significance /var/archives has? I have a 1.25 GB
> /var partition, which always used to be plenty, but archives is now eating
> up 1.05 GB, so I'll have to move (or preferably delete) it.
/var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives
To clean the archives after upgrade you have to do:

sudo apt-get clean

Nothing else !

--
Gérard