Your message dated Mon, 18 Feb 2019 03:20:55 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#922415: Zap /var/lib/dpkg/available* and save the user
four megabytes
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.19.4
Severity: minor
How about removing
/var/lib/dpkg/available
/var/lib/dpkg/available-old
or at least zapping them to zero bytes.
They haven't been updated in five years,
and you could save the user four megabytes.
OK maybe they still update on some people's systems, but not mine.
Indeed four megabytes is bigger than the biggest file,
$ find /var/lib/dpkg -type f|xargs ls -og|sort -k 3nr,3|sed q
-rwxr-xr-x 1 2260721 02-09 06:22
/var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard-configuration.config
of all
$ find /var/lib/dpkg -type f|wc -l
5796
files in the entire tree.
P.S., remember to remove all the mentions of the "available file" from the man
page too.
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Hi!
On Fri, 2019-02-15 at 22:26:58 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.19.4
> Severity: minor
> How about removing
> /var/lib/dpkg/available
> /var/lib/dpkg/available-old
> or at least zapping them to zero bytes.
> They haven't been updated in five years,
> and you could save the user four megabytes.
>
> OK maybe they still update on some people's systems, but not mine.
This is still used by dselect and with some of the commands. If you do
not want the file and are not using any frontend that makes use of it,
you can clear it with «dpkg --clear-avail». There is no bug here. Thus
closing.
Thanks,
Guillem
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