Debian Lenny and release dates

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 03:39:43PM -0400, John Moniz 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 clean up using 'apt-get clean'.

The cache directory is just for storing downloads while installing them,
after which you shouldn't need them again.

apt-get update will update the list of packages available (and stores
them in /var/lib/apt/lists/) and use that list compared to what is
installed to decide what to upgrade.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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