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From: Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o>
To: ferringb@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:34:09
Message-Id: 407D2FBE.3060804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :) by Brian Harring
1 Brian Harring wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 05:36, KRimminal wrote:
3 >
4 >>well, this ideea has been passed around on the gentoo forum, but no
5 >>steps have been taken.
6 >>the issue is: 'deletion of old distfiles'.
7 >>well, the code is in the forums, can someone check it and put it in the
8 >>portage tree ?
9 >
10 > I'd touched on inclusion of a distfiles cleaning utility in glep25-
11 > regardless if the glep gets accepted or not, I think it would be a
12 > useful addition to app-portage/gentoolkit.
13 >
14 > I've personally been using a modified distclean, no complaints with it.
15 > ~brian
16
17 For what it's worth, this is how I list my unused distfiles:
18
19 # find /usr/portage/distfiles -type f -not \( `emerge -epf world 2>&1|awk
20 'BEGIN{mino=""}{n=split($1,a,"/");if(n>1){print mino,"-name ",a[n];mino=" -o
21 "}}'` \)
22
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24 / Xavier Neys
25 \_ Gentoo Documentation Project
26 / French & Internationalisation Lead
27 \ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en
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Re: [gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :) KRimminal <krimminal@××.ro>