Telling apt not to delete old packages that are no longer in a repository

Johannes Kastl ojkastl at gmx.de
Thu Apr 19 08:22:25 PDT 2007


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On 04/19/2007 08:12 AM Panu Matilainen wrote:

> DSelect.. that's debian-stuff. You can put pretty much any arbitrary junk 
> and apt wont complain, it only actually uses what it recognizes so 
> apt-config dump showing something doesn't mean much.

Ah, I didnt know that.

> To disable the "smart autocleaner" (originally introduced in 0.5.15cnc7 
> IIRC) use this in apt config:
> 
> APT::Get::Archive-Cleanup "false";

Ill have a try. Thanks for your answer.

OJ
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