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

[NoOp]

On 07/28/2010 09:53 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 02:05 AM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 07/28/2010 09:52 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
...
>>> 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

And you had files like:
us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_Contents-i386.gz
in the archives?