On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:57:07AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Aldebaran wrote: > >On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:57 am, Sam Watkins wrote:
> >>On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >>>Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running > >>>"apt-get autoclean". > >>Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an > >>option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that > >>have been installed on your computer. If it's installed ok already, we > >>don't need the archive, right? > >Thats what apt-get clean does right? > No; "clean" cleans out all the packages from the local repository, > regardless of whether those packages have been installed or not. Sam's > idea would be useful, in that maybe you've downloaded 400MB of packages > over the past 3 or 4 Sid upgrades, and then this next time you run out > of space on /var about halfway through downloading a new 50MB of files. > These packages are now taking up about 425MB space, and you need an > additional 25 to finish your upgrade. With Sam's idea, you could clean > out those 400MB worth of packages which are already installed, without > cleaning out the 25MB or so you've just downloaded for the most recent > upgrade. I'm not sure I'm correct here, but from what I have observed, "autoclean" removes all packages that have a later version. I may not be correct on this, but if correct, this should take care of most space problems. If you are simply "upgrading", you'd probably have the older version of a package in the database. Therefore, "autoclean" would remove the older version thus making room for the newer version. Except in rare cases, a newer version of a package should not be appreciably larger than the previous, so if you ran out of space then, you probably ought to make different arrangements on your disk anyway. Personally, I prefer to not do an "autoclean" until I'm sure that all current packages are not buggy and I wouldn't want to downgrade any of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
