Hi Daniel,

Some checks on listing updates and also getting changelog messages are made by
analyzing info from the already downloaded packages. That's the way apticron
works. Sorry but I can't change this for now. Giving an option to call a
cleanup after downloading them would help you there? Could you use a cron
script for this?

BTW, taking a look at this post made me feel your apt.conf setup can also be a
problem for you:

http://svana.org/sjh/diary/2008/04/23

cheers,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:29:14PM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Package: apticron
> Version: 1.1.25
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I have 
> 
> Dir::Cache::archive "";
> 
> in my apt.conf, but apticron still downloads archives into 
> /var/cache/apt/archives.  I don't want that.  I just want notification of 
> updates, but no download.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages apticron depends on:
> ii  apt                0.7.18                Advanced front-end for dpkg
> ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
> ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.5.24                Debian configuration management 
> sy
> ii  ucf                3.0010                Update Configuration File: 
> preserv
> 
> Versions of packages apticron recommends:
> ii  apt-listchanges               2.83       package change history 
> notificatio
> ii  iproute                       20080725-2 networking and traffic control 
> too
> 
> apticron suggests no packages.
> 
> -- debconf information:
>   apticron/notification: root
> 
> 

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