cleaning old packages from my local repo

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Dargor · #1 Post by **Dargor** » 2007-01-28 06:02

hey i have a local repository(testing) which i have made from collecting the .deb's from /var/cache/apt/archive and moving them to /debmirror/etchrepo/ . Now after some time performing dist-upgrade's i have obsolete versions of the same package.
ie;
adduser_3.100_all.deb
adduser_3.101_all.deb

my man searches have revealed nothing and i was wondering if perhaps there are some cool options i could use in a bash(or other) script, unless there is a program that will do this for me.

hcgtv · #2 Post by **hcgtv** » 2007-01-28 06:10

apt-get autoclean does a pretty good job of it.

Dargor · #3 Post by **Dargor** » 2007-01-28 10:40

ok, that would work but.. the machine is not on the net, only haveing the local repo in apt/sources.list, apt-get autoclean sounds like it will not be appropriate

DeanLinkous · #4 Post by **DeanLinkous** » 2007-01-28 12:55

Have you considered setting up your repo with apt-move instead of just draggin the packages around? apt-move IIRC will remove the obsolete, it also creates proper mirror structure and so forth...

apt-move

Dargor · #5 Post by **Dargor** » 2007-01-28 22:59

not untill now, it was working just fine.