MX Cleanup

[colin_b]

I see what you mean. I wasn't sure what the lists were. Just out of curiosity, are the lists automatically deleted when the lists are updated?

[Adrian]

I think if you remove a source the corresponding list is deleted after apt-get update, otherwise the lists are updated (not deleted) when you do "apt-get update".

[colin_b]

I've had a look at what Bleachbit showed on my installed OS (MX16), and it showed ~250MB of package lists. I did an update via the update manager and afterwards I had ~330MB of package lists. As a final thought, would it be possible for the update manager to clear the lists, or just old lists, when it does an update to free up a bit of HD space?

[fehlix]

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As a final thought, would it be possible for the update manager to clear the lists, or just old lists, when it does an update to free up a bit of HD space?

With every apt-update the package-manager will fetch all changed package-lists from the package server and would remove old ones. If you delete all package-lists the apt-package-manager would need to download all package-lists again,
even those which have not changed. So you would not gain much to have temporarily removed the pkg-lists.
But you would increase the download-traffic from the server, your used bandwidth and would force unneeded writing onto your hd/ssd.

[dolphin_oracle]

besides, without the lists, synaptic will only show what's installed instead of what's available (without a reload anyway, which brings back the lists). (At least I think that's the case).

[Redacted]

That's true. It happened to me the first time I ever used Bleachbit, and it took me a while to figure out what was wrong with Synaptic.

[colin_b]

Thanks to all for the info.

I'll put this down as a bad idea

[Richard]

@Gerson,

Buena discusión.
Creo que el Cleanup es suficiente para limpiar la mayoría de datos innecesarios,
antes de hacer un Snapshot.

Saludos, Richard.

[antiX-Dave]

I've had a look at what Bleachbit showed on my installed OS (MX16), and it showed ~250MB of package lists. I did an update via the update manager and afterwards I had ~330MB of package lists. As a final thought, would it be possible for the update manager to clear the lists, or just old lists, when it does an update to free up a bit of HD space?

Is this truely package lists or the downloaded/cached packages that were installed in the upgrade?

[asqwerth]

I was wondering about that. 250MB seems a large size for lists.

Does MX-Cleanup include "apt-get clean" or "apt clean" to remove the cached packages?

Also, does Debian package management include a command (or some tag added to "apt clean") to remove all cached packages EXCEPT for the most recent X (which is a variable that can be specified) number of versions of the same package?

Arch has some commands that can do that. I'm not sure about Fedora and Opensuse, but I know the latter 2 distros have some settings to only keep the last X number of kernels.

It's useful to keep the most recent previous versions of a package, just in case you need to revert back to the previous version due to some bug or problem with the current.