Control: notfound -1 0.93.1+nmu1 Control: tags -1 - patch On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:28:39 -0400 Antoine Beaupre <anar...@debian.org> wrote:> Package: unattended-upgrades > Version: 0.93.1+nmu1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > In the past week, my filesystem finally filled up due to 6GB of > archives in /var/cache/apt/archives. I identified unattended-upgrades > as the cause of this problem, as it didn't purge old packages (hello > texlive!) that it downloaded previously, even when there were > many versions of the same packages. > > unattended-upgrades doesn't document how to work around this problem > at all, in itself. There is, however, sparse documentation here and > there that indicate there are ways of doing this with: > > // Do "apt-get autoclean" every n-days (0=disable) > APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "7"; > > This is documented in: > > https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades > https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.regular-upgrades.html > > It seem important that the default configuration also documents this > feature, if not just enable it by default. > > I filed a pull request upstream for this: > > https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/pull/68
As discussed in the GitHub issue the default seems to be working and it may have been a local issue. Cheers, Balint -- Balint Reczey Ubuntu & Debian Developer
