diff options
| author | Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> | 2024-02-20 08:32:27 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> | 2024-02-20 08:32:27 +0000 |
| commit | 9af8be578621e61431382acbf0561067bc4f8ecd (patch) | |
| tree | 82b7eed640600ed1e61974c25b9ecd5f568efd83 | |
| parent | 014d0ccfa0ade684e2b650fda3e8d3ffd4d7b431 (diff) | |
| parent | 8c86d5fc940f19b6908f731d334a6f3be0d027d0 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'distclean-doc' into 'main'
Document 'dist-clean'
See merge request apt-team/apt!317
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-get.8.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.xml b/doc/apt-get.8.xml index 3b8df6422..3779b18b9 100644 --- a/doc/apt-get.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-get.8.xml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ &apt-email; &apt-product; <!-- The last update date --> - <date>2024-01-08T00:00:00Z</date> + <date>2024-01-10T00:00:00Z</date> </refentryinfo> <refmeta> @@ -250,6 +250,13 @@ erased if it is set to off.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><option>distclean</option> (and the <option>dist-clean</option> alias)</term> + <listitem><para><literal>distclean</literal> removes all files under + <filename>&statedir;/lists</filename> except Release, Release.gpg, and InRelease. + It can be used for example, when finalizing images distributed to users. + The release files are kept for security reasons, to prevent various types of attacks.</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><option>autoremove</option> (and the <option>auto-remove</option> alias since 1.1)</term> <listitem><para><literal>autoremove</literal> is used to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed.</para></listitem> |