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José Fonseca wrote: |
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> I never do `rm -f /usr/portage/distfiles'. I find very useful having the |
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> sources of the installed packages ihandy as it avoids downloading |
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> everything over andagain when updating to new releases of the same |
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> version, or when installing Gentoo on another system. But after some |
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> time that directory gets too fat and is too boring to eliminate the |
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> deprecated packages by hand so I've made a script to automate this. You |
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> can see it attached. |
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You read my mind! |
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I was just thinking "i'd like to have a script that ...." |
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and you come out with this. great. |
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thanks. I should think more often :-) |
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It would be nice if this script would appear in gentoolkit... |
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> I've started with a shell script, then python, then I've read qpkg.sh, |
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> ebuild.sh, portage.py and many others in the search of the easiest way |
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> to do this. In the end everything boiled down to 2 lines - the rest is |
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> just sintatic sugar! |
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nice. I just love when sed transforms the command line in completely |
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unreadable magic :-) |
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How would be to make it a bit shorter and more configurable in one shot ?: |
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-PORTDIR=/usr/portage |
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-DISTDIR=$PORTDIR/distfiles |
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-CACHEDIR=$PORTDIR/metadata/cache |
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-PKGDBDIR=/var/db/pkg |
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+. /etc/make.globals;. /etc/make.conf |
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(or: for i in /etc/make.{globals,conf} do . $i;done ) |
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Marko |
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