Jason Gunthorpe writes: > Why? You can't use APT to operate on these debs! If you want to keep a > archive of all installed .debs there are some script hooks you can use to > do that.
Okay, you are right about this, I was confused. I would appreciate some pointers to what these script hooks are, and if possible, also pointers to examples of how to use them. > Thats not true, the purpose of the autoclean function is to remove things > APT cannot make use of. If it is left behind then there is some apt-get > command line that will let you use it. Yes, I am mistaken about this too, and you are correct. My confusion stems from the fact that when woody==testing, my sources.list referenced woody+potato (testing+stable) and I had to write a "clean-apt-cache" script to remove the upgraded potato packages from apt's cache. However, now sarge==testing, and my sources.list references only sarge (testing). Thanks for your patience, I guess that we can just leave this bug report as it is - closed. -- Jeff Sheinberg
