Re: New newsgroup for Debian users

From: Andy Fraser (andyfraser31_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:09:06 +0100

In alt.linux, Alan Connor uttered these immortal words:

> Still not showing up on the Earthlink newsfarm. I mailed them again,
> including the case and reply numbers of the previous mails.

It's not been added to my news providers server yet either so I can't honour
your followup-to header.
 
> But I am posting this to alt.os.linux.debian, and so have a question
> about APT:
>
> My /var partition was recently maxed out by APT, which was storing copies
> of the installed debian packages (.deb).
>
> Why does it do this?

To save you the time and the Debian mirror the bandwidth of having to
download them again if they're needed again I'd have thought.

> One of the main points of APT, I thought,
> was that the packages were stored on a remote server and thus users
> didn't have to use their own hdds to store them?

It still saves time/bandwidth if a copy is cached locally. I run apt-proxy
on a server to make sure I only download each deb once and then have it
available locally.
 
> I just removed them all (/var/apt/cache).

"apt-get clean" is the "proper" way to do it.
 
> Will this cause problems?
 
I doubt it. APT is very good at knowing what it has and what it wants and
doing the "right thing". 

-- 
Andy.

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