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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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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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Maybe we can get systemd 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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just teasing....(not really?).....ha ha ha ha ah ha ha ha ha..... |
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Lennart can you help a bro out? |
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;-) |
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James |
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