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On Wednesday 13 August 2014 15:07:19 James wrote: |
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> I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles |
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> only contains tar files. I have not clean up the |
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> system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my |
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> /usr/local/ needs. |
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> But I do not remember ever seeing any types of files |
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> other than compressed tar files in /distfiles/ |
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> Now I have (sampling): |
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> *.pathch |
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> I thought all patch files where kept in the subdirs where the |
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> ebuilds are located (files dir)? It is still where most *.patch |
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> files are located. |
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> *.exe (like verdan32.exe webdin32.exe ) |
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> and many others (here's a sample from /usr/portage/distfiles): |
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> scons-2.3.0-user.html |
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> scons-2.3.0-user.pdf |
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> scrollkeeper-omf.dtd |
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> seamonkey-2.26.1-en-GB.xpi |
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> rdoc-4.0.1.gem |
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> readline62-004 |
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> rfc2307bis.schema-20140524 |
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> nmap-logo-64.png |
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> gobject-introspection-1.40.0.tar.xz._checksum_failure_.146ofr |
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> |
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> I guess I need "enlightenment" ? |
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> Also, in the past I have manually aged/pruned or size/prunded |
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> the disfiles dir, but I stopped doing that in the age |
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> of 2T+ sized drives....maybe I need to return to cleaning up |
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> 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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Regards |
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Peter |
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