On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or auto-clean. Check the man > page. It will remove debs that aren't current. or something like that.
Actually, all that does is to remove either all (clean) or selected (auto-clean) - selected in the sense that they're debs no longer available. But it removes the debian packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, not the actual packages themselves. A common scenario: user has whatsit-1.3.0-1.deb package installed, and has that .deb file in his /var/cache/apt/archives directory. He then does an upgrade, and fetches whatsit-1.3.0-3.deb. The upgrade process removes the files that comprised 1.3.0-1, and replaces them with the files from 1.3.0-3, of course, but both the debs for whatsit exist in /var/cache/apt/archives. If the user does an aptitude autoclean, it'll remove the old version of whatsit (1.3.0-1) in that directory. > > A > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
