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

[Johannes Kastl]

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Hello,

I am looking for a way to tell apt (Version apt-0.5.15lorg3.2-34.1 on
Suse 10.2 and 9.3) to NOT delete packages that are no longer available
in a repository.

Til now I got the answer that putting

{
  Clean "never";   // always|auto|prompt|never
};

into apt.conf should do the trick, but it doesnt. No matter where I
put the apt.conf. By default there is one in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/apt.conf, I tried a copy in /etc, but that also
didnt work.

Right now the apt.conf is the same on 9.3 and 10.2, and both return

DSelect "";
DSelect::Clean "never";

when running apt-config dump, so I assume it is recognized.

What to do?

OJ
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