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On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote: |
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> on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(lists@××××××××××××.de) wrote |
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> > > You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time |
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> > Or in /var/log. Logrotate helps there and /var/log/portage can be |
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> > cleaned up by a script that compresses everything older than 1 day (the |
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> > test helps not to "disturb" a running portage or get ugly split logs). |
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> What I would really like to do is get rid of everything except the |
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> most recent compile of each program in /var/log/portage -- anyone have a |
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> script to do that? |
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Check man emerge and read (carefully) --clean --depclean and --prune options. |
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Use any of these judiciously because you can easily hose your box (if you get |
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rid of your compiler for example). |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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