On Friday, 21 July 2017 16:09:15 CEST Curt wrote:
> The man page sends you to '/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz',
> where the boolean values are exclusively (I think) "true" or "false", as
> are all the default values in the /etc/apt/apt/apt.conf.d "fragments."
I see, but what confus
On 2017-07-19, wrote:
>
>>
>> $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80autoclean
>> APT::Clean-Installed "false";
>
> Didn't find any ref in the docs, so I downloaded the package source
> (with a tip o' the hat to the "video driver/free software" thread,
> esp. to Doug there: hi, Doug :-)
The man page send
> From: solit...@mail.com
> The thing is that it"s not obvious to me that you can set any of the values:
> "true", "on", "yes" vs. "false", "off", "no".
A bit off topic, but in some places the ^ means high in others it means low
on top. As in file managers and taks managers. Whatsupwitdat?
But eve
On Thursday, 20 July 2017 08:25:41 CEST David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 16:21:57 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:48:03PM +0200, solitone wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:22:33 CEST to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > echo "APT::Clean-Installed no;
On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 16:21:57 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:48:03PM +0200, solitone wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:22:33 CEST to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > echo "APT::Clean-Installed no;" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-autoclean
> >
> > I've set it to "false"
On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 23:02:04 CEST to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> There is this function StringToBool in apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc:
>
> [...]
>
> |// Check for positives
> |if (strcasecmp(Text.c_str(),"no") == 0 ||
> |
> |strcasecmp(Text.c_str(),"false") == 0 ||
> |
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:48:03PM +0200, solitone wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:22:33 CEST to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > echo "APT::Clean-Installed no;" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-autoclean
>
> I've set it to "false", not to "no". The manual s
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:48:03PM +0200, solitone wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:22:33 CEST to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > echo "APT::Clean-Installed no;" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-autoclean
>
> I've set it to "false", not to "no". The manual s
On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:22:33 CEST to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> echo "APT::Clean-Installed no;" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-autoclean
I've set it to "false", not to "no". The manual says "off", but didn't find any
occurence of "on" and "off" in the other apt config files, just "true" or
"false
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 02:51:28PM +0200, solitone wrote:
> >From 'man apt-get':
>
> autoclean (and the auto-clean alias since 1.1)
>[...]
>The configuration
>option APT::Clean-I
>From 'man apt-get':
autoclean (and the auto-clean alias since 1.1)
[...]
The configuration
option APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages
from being erased if it is set to off.
I've just lost some cached package files,
ok, I'll quit saying "I want" and write it :)
here is a slow perl version:
http://nipl.net/hacks/apt-clean.pl
and the fast version which you won't be able to build as it uses some
libraries and stuff that I'm too lazy to post yet:
http://nipl.net/hacks/apt-clean.bb
http://nipl.net/hacks/a
uld recommend running
> >>>"apt-get autoclean".
> >>Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an
> >>option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that
> >>have been installed on your computer. If it&#
On 2004-12-23 20:57:36 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an
> option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that
> have been installed on your computer. If it's installed ok already, we
Aldebaran wrote:
On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:57 am, Sam Watkins wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running
"apt-get autoclean".
Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I
On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:57 am, Sam Watkins wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running
> > "apt-get autoclean".
>
> Speaking of "apt-get autoclean"
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:18:24PM +1100, Robert Parker wrote:
> > Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an
> > option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that
> > have been installed on your computer. If it's i
On Thursday 23 December 2004 20:57, Sam Watkins wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running
> > "apt-get autoclean".
>
> Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I t
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running
> "apt-get autoclean".
Speaking of "apt-get autoclean", I think it would be nice to have an
option that does what autoclean does, but also
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