Re: Making linaro-nano smaller or Give Up Disk Space for Lent

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011, Tom Gall wrote:

Specifically from the installed image after the hwpack deps are installed get rid of the following: rm -f ./var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages rm -f ./var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources rm -f ./var/lib/apt/lists/*Release rm -f ./var/lib/apt/lists/*Release.gpg rm -f ./var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin rm -f ./var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin

I think there is a way for APT to keep compressed versions of these files; it's the Acquire::GzipIndexes option