Hey Michael! Thanks for your response.
You might also wanna monitor the outcome of Bug#160743. Apparently, the APT team is considering making 'clean' the default action upon a succesfull install/upgrade/dist-upgrade. Cheers! Martin-Éric 2016-01-01 18:46 GMT+02:00 Michael Vogt <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 12:26:29AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> Package: unattended-upgrades >> Version: 0.86.4 >> Severity: wishlist > > Thanks for your bugreport. > > I like this idea, I implemented it in: > https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/commit/c0a9a1c429b2999bd23857149f01bae3995c840a > > The default behavior is now to remove the downloaded .deb files after > successful installs. This the best default, the operation was > successful so why keep the files around. I added a option to override > this too just in case someone disagrees :) If so I would be curious to > know the use-cases to keep the downloaded debs around. I wonder if > this should not also be the default for apt itself. > > Cheers, > Michael > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> Currently, the global key APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval allows performing >> 'apt-get autoclean' after N days. This is insufficient on systems that have >> limitted storage space, since autoclean only clears downloaded packages that >> no longer appear in the archive. What is needed is for 'apt-get clean' to be >> performed, to remove all downloaded packages from the cache, but only after >> a succesful unattended upgrade. >> >> - -- System Information: >> Debian Release: stretch/sid >> APT prefers testing >> APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (1001, 'stable'), (1001, 'oldstable') >> Architecture: i386 (i586) >> >> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-586 >> Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >> >> Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on: >> ii apt 1.1.5 >> ii apt-utils 1.1.5 >> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.58 >> ii init-system-helpers 1.24 >> ii lsb-base 9.20150917 >> ii lsb-release 9.20150917 >> ii python3 3.4.3-7 >> ii python3-apt 1.1.0~beta1 >> ii ucf 3.0031 >> ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 >> >> Versions of packages unattended-upgrades recommends: >> ii systemd-cron [cron-daemon] 1.5.3-1 >> >> Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests: >> ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20150408cvs-1 >> ii nullmailer [mail-transport-agent] 1:1.13-1 >> >> - -- Configuration Files: >> /etc/logrotate.d/unattended-upgrades changed: >> /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log >> /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log >> /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log >> { >> rotate 6 >> daily >> compress >> missingok >> notifempty >> } >> >> >> - -- debconf information: >> * unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates: true >> unattended-upgrades/origins_pattern: >> "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian-Security"; >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1 >> >> iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWhFoPAAoJEK4fgnfEtNe2p7EP/34lPqW2bGSzeZvjk207ZRrT >> p/34fGA8avOTuY6Dr7gxL9cHdbFa2L/pA2nGgLe4jSyf0k9Qg6WIS5piIg7zGX4+ >> QS27frJ9iqczwgfDZEIJ4A0ZXGPfedD1fCQRodFxKQ6BUYPqNe1GDldryuaLPtzh >> LSMClIeaxTTMKRg9a/hJA2wPB1wdIyssGzH53mQn7/HqKkKOIlWleFJHisYaxiSG >> +lpO5Uw1f8HfNnck0prp+9NuFsWe2BkoiOh9oji2CpqM34Wv3bgBQDYFdFUSkAIE >> EjviryDRdP2Ypq8IlS3+S2vwxplrFgVB7E6tXbF9LkQLMDJ4oCELx+KhAvtFvCse >> QDjAGU+oQWDe7VaTaY374Ctxs88YMgGJQ04GpOXnNQYINkmTtgztFspKiDCxdBxZ >> VOrhTP4+6E7eqxYw7TL+QiLFt/ry2A8/aQ3CQTPd41AKCez3iqOsevs9jvJ3Pid4 >> yy+noF6CuvAXUHP2+CdhxPjJiUxbD8baDd4LocEH7s5Vcj4ashm404ZBApY99+En >> 4I28FQKzTF7eJUaPWVFKy6705s2/nDU5t9loO7jx85TKTJMqWb45ACppWt87hCYW >> NM2/Me9zn6Rx/IFxm71LO2kdvR9EsCQ3r+ibbrrYXlsd8AroB4KfsIu1DfpZF9OE >> QmlIdeOvWmGrDmLzUQJ8 >> =b3y8 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
