On Sunday 18 November 2007 20:03, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Nov 16, 7:10 pm, "David Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > Actually, autoclean removes packages that are no longer the latest > available from the local package cache.
I' m sorry to disagree Paul, but that's not the way I found autoclean to work. I thought it would remove all but the latest package versions, but in effect only removed those that were no longer available from the repo. I was still left with multiple versions of packages, in some cases 3, or 4 versions of the same package. I presume this is so that you can revert to an earlier version of a package if you have a problem with the latest one, and without having to download it again. I havn't tried Marc's script yet, but if it works as he says, it should remove all but the latest package versions in /var/cache/apt/archives. Perhaps "clean-all-but-the-latest" would be a good addition to apt-get. Only light hearted week-end ramblings. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
