Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up

[n952162]

On 5/14/21 12:36 AM, Dale wrote:
> Manuel McLure wrote:
>> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 2:47 PM n952162 <n952162@×××.de
>> <mailto:n952162@×××.de>> wrote:
>>
>>      Hi,
>>
>>      I'm running out of space and I see I have many versions of all
>>      pkgs.  Is
>>      the proper way to get rid of all older tarballs - but retain the
>>      current
>>      ones - to simply use the --clean option with emerge?  Any other
>>      options
>>      necessary?
>>
>>
>> You might want to
>> give https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Remove_obsoleted_distfiles
>> a read.
>>
>> --
>> Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@××××××.org <mailto:manuel@××××××.org>>
>> <http://www.mclure.org>
>> ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law,
>> no man may kill a cat.                       -- H.P. Lovecraft
>
> That above is how I clean up mine as well.  When I do a large update, I
> give it a few days to make sure everything works and then run the following:
>
>
> eclean-dist -dq
>
> eclean-pkg -dq
>
>
> The -d option tells it to leave only what is installed and needed for
> recovery.  It leaves a bare minimum of packages.  If you omit that, it
> will leave any package versions that is still listed in the tree.
> That's my recollection of it anyway.  You may want to start just running
> with no options at all.  It's the most conservative method.  If you
> still need more space, add -d to get more things deleted.  The -q just
> means quiet.  I think it has a -p for pretend so you could run as -p and
> then -pd to see the difference.  The options work the same for both
> commands.
>
> One of those should work.  I might add, the man page isn't bad.  It
> gives quite a bit of details and even examples.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

Thank you.