Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I set mine thus:-
APT::Archives::MaxAge "180";
APT::Archives::MinAge "2";
APT::Archives::MaxSize "700";
My reasoning being that I want to keep .deb files around until the next
version of 'buntu comes out, and I'm happy to allow for up to a CD
sized .iso file being created.
As that's different from the defaults, I'm wondering if my reasoning is
faulty?
Also, am I correct in thinking that one just has to pop the CD in the drive,
and apt-get will get the files off the CD, instead of from the Internet, if
they are available on the CD?
Your reasoning seems fair to me. I've been manually managing the
cleaning of the cache. I do an apt-get clean after each burn with aptoncd.
To use the CDs on my dial-up PC, I've been doing an apt-cdrom add for
each of them. Apt then knows which packages are on which CDs, and asks
for them by name. I haven't heard that it'll just find them on a CD in
the tray.
Douglas.
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