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Xavier Neys wrote: |
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> Brian Harring wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 05:36, KRimminal wrote: |
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>>> well, this ideea has been passed around on the gentoo forum, but no |
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>>> steps have been taken. |
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>>> the issue is: 'deletion of old distfiles'. |
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>>> well, the code is in the forums, can someone check it and put it in the |
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>>> portage tree ? |
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>> I'd touched on inclusion of a distfiles cleaning utility in glep25- |
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>> regardless if the glep gets accepted or not, I think it would be a |
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>> useful addition to app-portage/gentoolkit. |
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>> I've personally been using a modified distclean, no complaints with it. |
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>> ~brian |
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> For what it's worth, this is how I list my unused distfiles: |
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> # find /usr/portage/distfiles -type f -not \( `emerge -epf world |
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> 2>&1|awk 'BEGIN{mino=""}{n=split($1,a,"/");if(n>1){print mino,"-name |
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> ",a[n];mino=" -o "}}'` \) |
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i wasn't talking about the unused ones, just the ones that have newer |
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downloaded releases. |
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like portage-1-2-3-4 |
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would be replaced by portage-2-3-4-5 |
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thus making portage-1-2-3-4 obsolete, and so, a clutter. |
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