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