Re: Questions about the new apt

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 21:58 +0100, Richard Bos wrote:
> 2 Questions about the new apt.  What does the "del" at the end of the update 
> output mean? :
[...]
> Del gcompris 4.2-0.pm.0 [0B]
> Del qt3-devel-doc 3.2.3-0 [317kB]
> Del assetml-flags 1.1-0.pm.0 [0B]

The new apt auto-cleans archives no longer available from any configured
repository from the local cache.  APT::Get::Archive-Cleanup can be set
to false if you don't like it.

> What does countpkglist?
> #  countpkglist
> usage: countpkglist <pkglist>

Just reverse engineered this myself; it is internally used by genbasedir
for appending SourceCount and PackageCount lines to release.* files in
repositories.  (No, I don't know yet what those lines are used for...)