Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-20 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:48:04AM +0100, christophe barbe wrote: Thank you to point me to the man command that I already know (-;. But you not really answer to my questions. normally that man command pointer just looks like RTFM but you got the long version. (don't you feel special?) Why are

apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread christophe barbe
Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. Can I delete these files ? Where can I tell to not keep these file ? I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only the diff when upgrading a package. But it's not what is done.

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In christophe barbe's email, 19-03-2001: Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. Can I delete these files ? Where can I tell to not keep these file ? I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only the diff when

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread christophe barbe
Thank you to point me to the man command that I already know (-;. But you not really answer to my questions. Why are packages kept ? How can I stop this ? (how to say stop keeping downloaded packages) Thank, Christophe On lun, 19 mar 2001 10:27:43 Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote: In

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Yes you can remove them without danger(and with new free space on your hd) (I think dselect asks you wether to remove them or not) fred On Monday 19 March 2001 10:24, christophe barbe wrote: Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. Can I delete these files

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
Thank you to point me to the man command that I already know (-;. But you not really answer to my questions. then you may want to try: man apt.conf

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread Seth Arnold
Original Poster: The cache is there so that you can back out failed upgrades. I have seen several times when a new package broke something important an older version of the package did correctly. (Example: Mutt, libiconv, a month ago or so?) This way, you can use dpkg to downgrade to an older