Re: apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

2011-04-04 Thread jidanni
SP == Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: SP Perhaps the --purge-unused option of aptitude is what you are looking for. Naw, that only controls the difference between purging and just removing. OK, this helped: # aptitude markauto linux-doc-2.6.37 The following packages will be REMOVED:

apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

2011-04-02 Thread jidanni
Why do I always have to clean up older versions by hand? E.g., linux-doc-2.6 pulls in the latest version automatically, but if I don't want an ever growing number of older versions accruing, I have to remove them by hand. # apt-show-versions -r -p ^linux-doc linux-doc-2.6/unstable uptodate

Re: apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

2011-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 87d3l4tc0o@jidanni.org, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Why do I always have to clean up older versions by hand? E.g., linux-doc-2.6 pulls in the latest version automatically, but if I don't want an ever growing number of older versions accruing, I have to remove them by hand. #

Re: apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

2011-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:27:19 -0400 (EDT), jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Why do I always have to clean up older versions by hand? E.g., linux-doc-2.6 pulls in the latest version automatically, but if I don't want an ever growing number of older versions accruing, I have to remove them by hand.