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Am 13.08.2014 um 18:55 schrieb James: |
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> Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: |
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>> On Wednesday 13 August 2014 15:07:19 James wrote: |
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>>> maybe I need to return to cleaning up distfiles/ by hand? |
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>> Yes, I see I have other things than .tar.bz2 too, now you mention it. |
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>> One of my boxes runs http-replicator to serve distfiles to the network. The |
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>> clean-up script I run after upgrades includes this line: |
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>> find /var/cache/http-replicator -ctime +182 -exec rm '-v' {} + |
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>> Also, have you tried eclean-dist, from app-portage/gentoolkit? |
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> I'm not sure why, I figured I did not have to manually clean up |
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> /distfiles/ any more. for a period of time I could sware that |
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> it was a clean repository for compressed/tar source files only..... |
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never was. Never will be. |
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> Now that I'm looking, it looks like a policy decision for the devs |
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> to formally evaluate. /distfiles/ should not be a dir for garbage, |
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> one-off-files and other such nonsense. It was (circa 2004 for me) |
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> a repository for compressed sources. |
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you are wrong. There is no 'garbage' in $DISTDIR, only stuff needed to |
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install a certain package. Nothing there is random or without reason. |
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Maybe you should educate yourself a bit. Not everything is distributed |
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as compressed tar. Not everything needed is included in archives. Not |
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everything is done because you imagine it that way.- |
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And it never was a repository for compressed sources - ever. At least |
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not since Gentoo 1.0 |
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> Maybe we can get systemd |
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more idiotic ideas? Why not ask the kernel to clean it up. Or your |
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mother. Or maybe someone else who has nothing to do with package |
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managment...? |
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> to clean this up? It's the new "daddy" |
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> for all sorts of poorly wrtten codes, so why not add cleaning up |
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> /distfiles/ to it's new fiefdom? |
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because to be able to do that, it would have to know about portage? |
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