--- Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Reid wrote:
> > On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > [Common scenario elided]
> >
> > I wonder if "deborphan" meets the OP's need?
> It's a utility
> > that identifies "left over" packages that no other
> packages
> > depend on. Library packages that meet this
> description are
> > probably left-overs and can be removed.
> >
> > See <http://packages.debian.org/etch/deborphan>
> for more details.
> >
> > -- A.
> >
> Perhaps the OP is referring to .deb packages
> accumulating in
> /var/cache/apt/archives. After many upgrades and
> dist-upgrades there
> will be quite a few old versions of many .deb files
> that build up.
> Also, uninstalled packages still leave their .deb
> files in the
> archives. I wrote a program a while back (in
> Python) which handles this
> for me, giving statistics on how many package .deb
> files exist which are
> not installed, or are duplicated in the archives.
> It then gives options
> for deleting them with, or without prompting. I
> don't know of any
> packaged program that does this, however. That's
> why I wrote my own.
> This is what the program shows when it is started
> up:
>
> ----------------------------------------
> CleanApt v0.4.0 - an apt cache cleaner
>
> Total installed packages: 743 Total uninstalled
> packages in
> archive: 23
> Total packages in archive: 765 Total files in
> archive: 843
> Packages in archive w/dups: 59 Files in archive
> in dup
> pkgs: 137
>
>
> Delete uninstalled packages from archive (y/N/p/q)?
> y
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Running the program with -d will automatically
> remove dup deb files
> leaving only the one with the most recent date.
> Using -h will, of
> course, give a few screens of help on options and
> usage.
>
sounds intresting, you have the .deb posted online
somewhere, or in a repository? I would be intrested in
looking at it.
jwlockhart
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