1 |
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Dmitry Bashkatov <me@×××××××.name> wrote: |
2 |
> Hello! I have an idea for GSoC. There is tool called eclean. It is |
3 |
> really helpful to clean unneeded distfiles. But it is very popular to |
4 |
> share the same distfiles location between number of machines via NFS. |
5 |
> And calling eclean from one machine deletes distfiles that may be |
6 |
> useful for others. |
7 |
> Idea is to create network eclean. That will gather information about |
8 |
> wanted distfiles from all machines listed in some file and then do |
9 |
> delete. Hosts file by default contains only localhost. |
10 |
> |
11 |
> What do you think about it? |
12 |
> This is easy task, so it can be united with other gsoc idea. |
13 |
> |
14 |
|
15 |
This can already be done if you run `eclean -pCq` on all the machines, |
16 |
and only delete the files which are common among all those lists. It's |
17 |
pretty easy to hack up a script to ssh into all the machines, run the |
18 |
command, gather the lists, and find the intersection of them all. |
19 |
|
20 |
Personally, I don't see how this is more than a 2hr job. |
21 |
|
22 |
-- |
23 |
~Nirbheek Chauhan |
24 |
|
25 |
Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |