Re: Purging /var/cache/apt/archive

2002-03-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:21:21PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > But now I'm not sure what "old" means for apt-get. Does it means "the > older when there are more than two versions of the same package" or > "every package older N days"? None of the above. It means "no longer available for dow

Re: Purging /var/cache/apt/archive

2002-03-23 Thread Andras BALI
On 22 Mar 2002, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > I would like to purge /var/cache/apt/archive so that only the last > version of each package is preserved. You might want to check out aptsamever [1]. Or, if you don't like Python :-), I have a Perl script [2] that deletes every file from the cache that h

Re: Purging /var/cache/apt/archive

2002-03-23 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
And I heard Daniel Toffetti exclaim: > But now I'm not sure what "old" means for apt-get. Does it means "the > older when there are more than two versions of the same package" or > "every package older N days"? Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that it means 'every package that ca

Purging /var/cache/apt/archive

2002-03-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! I would like to purge /var/cache/apt/archive so that only the last version of each package is preserved. I'm not sure whether replying "yes" when dselect asks to delete previously downloaded files will preserve the last ones, but I guess it will not. The only clue I've found is in "apt-get