Re: [gentoo-user] Distfiles cache setup

[Marc Joliet]

On Sunday 20 September 2015 11:07:32 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>> I regularly run eclean-dist on the mythtv frontends as I still have 32GB
>> SSDs on a couple of them. These are pretty lean as all file shares &
>> mythtv recordings are on the server that is running 24/7.
>>
>>
>>
>> I figured eclean-dist would wipe out everything that wasn't needed by
>> the machine it was run on, but if all it does is clean stuff that isn't
>> in the tree any longer that would work too.
>
>This is controllable:
>- eclean-dist cleans what is in the tree no longer and not
>installed in the system;
>- eclean-dist -d cleans everything not installed in the system.
>
>One can also restrict cleaning by file date (e.g. don't touch files
>newer than) or by file size; fetch-protected files may be spared
>as well. See
>  eclean-dist --help
>for more details.

But keep https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472020 in mind if you want to 
use "-n" and "-d" together.

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Marc Joliet
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