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On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Angelo Arrifano <miknix@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello developers developers and developers, |
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> Ever wondered how much crap is left in your X-years old Gentoo box? |
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> I just developed a python utility to efficiently find orphaned files in |
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> the system. By orphaned files I mean the files that are present on |
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> system directories and don't belong to any installed package. |
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> The package builds a virtual filesystem (cache) on the RAM using python |
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> hash tables. Then it uses the cache to find the ownership of files |
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> inside user-specified dirs. |
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> Building the cache takes less than 10 seconds here in a system with 1366 |
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> installed packages. |
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> This is not intended to be a finished program yet, I'm looking forward |
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> for your constructive commentaries. |
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i have refactored findcruft (search the forums) two years ago (see |
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http://git.xnull.de/cgit/findcruft2/), maybe you can take a look at |
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it, especially the false-positives handling. |
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HTH, |
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Bene |
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