Re: [Apt-proxy-users] Keeping cache clean under various circumstances

[Chris H. <ha...@de...>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 20:53, mi wrote:
> * When ditching a whole section (e.g., changing 'security 
> stable/updates' to
>    'security woody/updates') or upgrading to a new dist-release
>    (e.g. from woody to sarge), can i delete all related files in
>    the cache manually ?

Yes, that's fine.  a-p will happily reconstruct anything it needs, as
long as you don't remove the /var/cache/apt-proxy directory itself
(which it doesn't have permission to recreate).

> * Can i delete the dkg-name.links directory which apt-proxy-import creates
>    (containing links to apt cache) manually ?

Yes.  Normally it would be deleted anyway (maybe it was interrupted)?

> * I suppose, it's doing 'update packages list' from a LAN client, when 
> the proxy
>    is _not_ online, which left stuff like this in the packages cache:
> 
> ls -l /var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/
> -rw-r--r--    1 aptproxy nogroup      6,3M 2004-01-15 03:42 Packages
> -rw-r--r--    1 aptproxy nogroup      1,7M 2003-11-20 19:17 Packages.gz
> -rw-r--r--    1 aptproxy nogroup         0 2004-01-19 04:30 
> Packages.gz.fail
> -rw-r--r--    1 aptproxy nogroup        95 2003-11-20 19:57 Release
> -rw-r--r--    1 aptproxy nogroup         0 2004-01-19 04:30 Release.fail
> 
>    Is there any problem with this ?

Not really.  It will eventually clean the files up, but you can clean
them by hand too, if you want.

If you're just starting out with apt-proxy, you might want to try the
python rewrite, which is available from experimental and is much quicker
than v1.

Chris