On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 05:09:51PM -0000, Curt wrote: > In the time-frame of the cited bug (October, 2015), at least, one thread > participant opined that the automatic clean-up in apt had yet to be > "implemented". Has it been done since somewhere?
wooledg:~$ ls /var/cache/apt/archives/ lock partial wooledg:~$ sudo apt install sl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: sl 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 26.7 kB of archives. After this operation, 99.3 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 sl amd64 3.03-17+b2 [26.7 kB] Fetched 26.7 kB in 0s (0 B/s) Selecting previously unselected package sl. (Reading database ... 91995 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../sl_3.03-17+b2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking sl (3.03-17+b2) ... Setting up sl (3.03-17+b2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... wooledg:~$ ls /var/cache/apt/archives/ lock partial