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On 01/02/2013 02:46 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 08:59 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: |
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>>> gentoo-x86/profiles/updates $ LANG=C ls -1 --sort=time |
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>>> [long list omitted] |
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>>> old entries are done in different context (comparing to 2012): |
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>>> - some packages change names 2 or 3 times |
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>>> - slots have different meaning |
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>>> moreover: |
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>>> - if you set your PORTDIR to different directory you'll get all |
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>>> that full update. And will break the system. Old profile entries |
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>>> used to break eclass-manpages and latex-base (due to double |
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>>> renaming) |
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>> It's worse: Bad entries in the old files may go unnoticed for a long |
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>> time. But if such a file is updated for whatever reason, it will be |
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>> reprocessed on users' systems, including any bad entries contained in |
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>> it. |
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>>> Thus the reason for removal is simple: old entries are potentially |
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>>> buggy as nobody verifies them. |
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>> I wouldn't even know how to verify them. |
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>> Let's remove that cruft. We can be extra conservative and keep five |
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>> years of backlog (i.e. everything from before 2008 would be removed |
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>> now). |
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>> Ulrich |
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> OK, that seems to be some very good reasons to tree-clean them. |
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> What's our next step? |
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It might be nice to document the removal policy in the developer |
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handbook, devmanual, or something. |
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> Tree-cleaners, does this fall into your department? |
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That seems fitting. |
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> Or should I prepare a list of files and/or updates to clean? |
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This command seems to do the trick: |
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$ ls -1 /usr/portage/profiles/updates/ | grep -Ev '(08|09|10|11|12|13)$' |
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1Q-2004 |
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1Q-2005 |
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1Q-2006 |
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1Q-2007 |
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2Q-2004 |
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2Q-2005 |
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2Q-2006 |
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2Q-2007 |
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3Q-2004 |
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3Q-2005 |
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3Q-2006 |
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3Q-2007 |
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4Q-2004 |
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4Q-2005 |
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4Q-2006 |
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4Q-2007 |
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-- |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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