Package: apt-cacher-ng Version: 0.6.3-1 Severity: wishlist Since apt-proxy was removed from Debian I currently migrate to apt-cacher-ng. As far as I can see, apt-cacher-ng deletes files by date (i.e. which are older than x days).
It would be great if apt-cacher-ng would instead (configurable) delete files by
version, i.e. the latest n versions remain in the cache. This has several
benefits:
a) If a deb is installed much later, no redownload is necessary
b) If an upgrade fails and the package releases seldomly, then the recent
version is still there even though it was downloaded much earlier
c) If a package is removed from Debian it is still in the cache, possibly for
years, so if a later reference is needed (e.g. a (temporary) reinstall is
necessary) then it is still present
It would be great if the kind of processing (by date or by package version)
could become configurable then.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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