Re: Bug#160743: apt: apt-get clean should run weekly
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> The apt package cache grows without bound; "apt-get clean" should be
> run regularly (a script in /etc/cron.weekly would be fine). Without
> such a script, apt runs the danger of filling up smaller disks, especially
> on systems run by less experienced Debian adminstrators.
Well, this is really up to the person running the machine. Many people
would yell loudly at me if their cache directory was purged without their
asking.
Less experianced people will use APT from within dselect where asks to
do a clean after successfull installation.
> Optimally, there would be options to apt-get to allow expiry of packages
> older than a certain number of days ("apt-get --age=5days clean" or something
The autoclean command does something similar. For this kind of data age
isn't really a factor, either you want to keep the packages for some
reason or you don't.
Jason
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