Quoting Simon Richter (2020-04-29 12:01:27) > I'm trying to build a few Docker containers for various apps, and since I'm > adding packages, I need to have package lists available during the container > build, but I'd like to remove them before packing the final application > container. > > I can obviously do that manually, which requires me to know apt internals. > > It would be nice if there was a command to remove the downloaded lists and > the indexes (although the latter can also be removed by just dropping all > files below /var/cache, which would be allowed in any case). Until apt provides such a command you can do the same that mmdebstrap does, which is to run: apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/dev/null -o Dir::Etc::SourceParts=/dev/null https://sources.debian.org/src/mmdebstrap/0.6.1-6/mmdebstrap/#L2348 Thanks! cheers, josch
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