On 2019-03-27, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > 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 > >
I guess I'm not noticing very well these days, having repeated your demonstration with identical results. I dig that choo-choo, too, thanks.
