We all know # apt-get autoclean clean local cached package files. (or apt-get clean)
But simply doing this is too aggressive to my taste. (We lose older but recent packages which may be the ones needed for recovering from recent broken upgrade process.) Attached simple script run from cron job daily or weekly seems to ease this issues. (I just wrote it. So some tuning and debug are needed.) If APT offers standard script along this kind of backup using hardlinks, it may be interesting. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt# du -sh * . 1.1G archives 1.1G backup-1 <-- daily back up :) 1.1G backup-2 <-- ,, 1.1G backup-3 <-- ,, 5.9M pkgcache.bin 5.8M srcpkgcache.bin 1.2G . <--- look it is small ! Osamu
#! /bin/sh -e # backup /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb (3 levels) # Written by Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian (http://www.debian.org), # PUBLIC DOMAIN. PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin if [ -x /usr/bin/aptitude ]; then APTCMD=/usr/bin/aptitude elif [ -x /usr/bin/apt-get ] APTCMD=/usr/bin/apt-get else exit 0 fi # move to /var/cache/apt mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives cd /var/cache/apt # backup-3 rm -rf backup-3 mkdir -p backup-2 mv backup-2 backup-3 # backup-2 mkdir -p backup-1 mv backup-1 backup-2 # backup-1 mkdir -p backup-1 cd /var/cache/apt/archives for i in *.deb; do ln -f $i ../backup-1/$i done cd / $APTCMD update $APTCMD autoclean
