In <87d3l4tc0o....@jidanni.org>, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >Why do I always have to clean up older versions by hand? > >E.g., linux-doc-2.6 pulls in the latest version automatically, >but if I don't want an ever growing number of older versions accruing, I >have to remove them by hand. > ># apt-show-versions -r -p ^linux-doc >linux-doc-2.6/unstable uptodate 1:2.6.38+33 >linux-doc-2.6.37 2.6.37-2 installed: No available version in archive >linux-doc-2.6.38/unstable uptodate 2.6.38-2 > >Sure 'do aptitude purge ~o often.' But that is still by hand. > >Why does apt make it easy to add the new version but lacks facilities to >clean up the old versions? Safety yes. But still not environmentally >friendly.
You may want to modify your APT settings. The "apt" package installs the
file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove file that contains this:
APT
{
NeverAutoRemove
{
"^firmware-linux.*";
"^linux-firmware$";
"^linux-image.*";
"^kfreebsd-image.*";
"^linux-restricted-modules.*";
"^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*";
};
// ..elided...
};
If you'd rather see these packges handled "normally" you can either edit this
file (although I recommend against it) or create a new file in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d that alters or augments these settings.
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