Does apt-cacher change packages access time?
I tried to remove the long time unused packages from apt-cacher
archive using find
:
$ find /var/cache/apt-cacher -atime +5 -type f -name ".*deb*" | wc -l 8471
$ find /var/cache/apt-cacher -atime +9 -type f -name ".*deb*" | wc -l 2269
$ find /var/cache/apt-cacher -atime +10 -type f -name ".*deb*" | wc -l 0
Can I depend on the "Access Time" for apt-cacher archive usage?
That is, does "Access Time" change only when package get received by the user?
We are using apt-cacher for more than 6 months.
Are you sure that the atime
on your files is properly kept? Many filesystems use mounted nowadays with noatime
or relatime
options to reduce the amount to writes to the disk.
Those options influence how and how often the atime
stat field is written.