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On Thursday 21 August 2003 05:44, Stewart Honsberger wrote: |
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> That's where it gets tricky. OpenOffice, Mozilla et al. are two great |
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> examples of packages whose source tarballs are *LARGE*. On one hand, |
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> those would, in one fell swoop, free up the most HDD space = most |
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> benefeit. On the other hand, they'd also cost more bandwidth to |
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> re-download = most detrimental. |
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> Operating on a strictly age-based system based around file access time |
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> could potentially work, except that Gentoo's install defaults and/or |
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> suggests strongly the notion of 'noatime' in fstab entries. |
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I used something similar for a while (using 'find' and atimes) but it was |
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never very satisfactory. The right time to delete these large tarballs is |
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"after the user has decided he wont be needing it". Im not sure how to |
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automate that. |
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Perhaps the best solution would be something like etc-update.... It finds the |
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best candidates for deletion based on size and age, and lets the user select |
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the ones to delete. |
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