On Sb, 02 ian 21, 06:28:24, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-01-02 at 05:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > How many package versions do you keep around? > > Basically all of them. In theory I go in and delete the oldest unneeded > ones from time to time, but in practice that hasn't happened much. > > On previous systems I investigated things like autoclean, but AFAIR I > never identified a way to get such a mechanism to keep the .deb files I > might want to use for reinstallation without keeping more than > necessary, and after a while it stopped being worth the while. > > I believe I remember at least one mechanism which specifically provides > a way to delete only .deb files which cannot be re-downloaded. While > that's sensible from a clean-out-old-files perspective, from a > keep-important-files one it strikes me as backwards; if they can be > re-downloaded, then I don't strictly need the local copy in order to > reinstall them. > > At the very least, I'd need to be able to keep the .deb files for > whatever version is presently installed - and probably more than that, > given that I do sometimes try installing a newer version and then decide > to downgrade again (thus requiring not only the older version's .deb, > but those for some of the packages it depends on). 'apt[-get] autoclean' with APT:Clean-Installed set to off might be a good start, see apt-get(8). > > My laptop is indeed on a 30 GiB partition, but using only 14 GiB. I > > do (auto)clean the package cache more or less regularly though, even > > on unstable installs. > > That's a bit more sensible, although it still strikes me as fairly > limiting in terms of how much can be installed. With all packages I need already installed I'm barely using 50%. How is that limiting? > > It's probably best to define what I mean by "installation". For me > > this means that if I were to install the same set of packages on a > > blank partition I would end up with about the same size. > > That's roughly the definition I was using, yes. > > > 100 GiB (excluding /home and other "data" storages) should be > > plenty. > > Yeah, if you'd given that figure initially I probably wouldn't have even > replied to begin with. It's less than I'd allocate, given the disk sizes > I have to work with, but it's well within sane ranges for a sysadmin to > choose even by my standards. I meant "plenty" as in "almost wasteful" ;) But then again, I'm used to getting by with limited storage space. I could probably fit all my data in 1 TiB. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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