old contents of /var/cache/apt/apt-file/

[Goh Lip]

On 07/29/2010 02:05 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 09:52 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
>> On 07/29/2010 12:42 AM, NoOp wrote:
>>> On 07/28/2010 09:01 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:58:21AM -0700, NoOp wrote:
>>>>> On 07/28/2010 07:57 AM, Adam Funk wrote:
>>>>>> I noticed  (while looking at the stuff in /var/cache/apt/archives/)
>>>>>> that my /var/cache/apt/apt-file/ directory contains a lot of old files
>>>>>> (feisty through karmic) as well as the current lucid ones.  I guess
>>>>>> they never get purged!  Is there any reason not to delete them myself?
>>>>>
>>>>> Normally '$ sudo apt-get clean' will clean the entire archive.
>>>>
>>>> apt-file is a different tool:
>>>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man1/apt-file.1.html
>>>>
>>>> Try apt-file purge
>>>>
>>>> Marius Gedminas
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks. I'll use that on the other systems - I already rm'ed the junk on
>>> this one.
>>>
>>
>> To just clean out obsolete files and let current files remain,
>> apt-get autoclean
>
> That didn't work for the hardy and jaunty files&  why I ended up rm'ing
> them instead. Tried both '$ sudo apt-get clean' and '$ sudo apt-get
> autoclean'.
>
>
>

Strange again, this (apt-get autoclean) works for me, but copying 
/var/cache/apt/archives/ did not.
Did just that moments ago.
Must check if I am on right distro; Ubuntu, right?  ;)

Regards - Goh Lip