Debian Lenny and release dates

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:39 PM, John Moniz <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> It looks like my drive is getting a bit full. Do I need the packages in
> /var/cache/apt/archives in order to do the upgrade? If I clear it, I'm OK,
> but not sure if that's where apt does it's look up to determine what needs
> upgrading.

You can safely clear out the package files in that directory; when you
run an upgrade, new package files will get thrown in there.

The value in keeping *some* of them is that if you want to install
another Debian system, you could copy those package files over, and
avoid the need to download them.

I have frequently used a common NFS mount for /var/cache/apt/archives,
so that when I run apt-get upgrade against 2 boxes, they don't both
wind up downloading the same files twice.
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