Bug#160743: efficient local package cache backup for autoclean/clean

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:45:13AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> We all know 
> 
>  # apt-get autoclean
> clean local cached package files. (or apt-get clean)
> 
> But simply doing this is too aggressive to my taste.
> 
> (We lose older but recent packages which may be the ones needed for
> recovering from recent broken upgrade process.)
> 
> Attached simple script run from cron job daily or weekly seems to ease
> this issues.  (I just wrote it. So some tuning and debug are needed.)
> 
> If APT offers standard script along this kind of backup using hardlinks,
> it may be interesting.

I use something like this in cron.daily:

find /space/cache/apt/archives -type f -atime +5 \
        | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm

-- 
 - mdz