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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: distfiles contains extra files?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:35:34
Message-Id: 53EBCBD5.4060008@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: distfiles contains extra files? by James
1 On 13/08/2014 18:55, James wrote:
2 > Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes:
3 >
4 >
5 >> On Wednesday 13 August 2014 15:07:19 James wrote:
6 >
7 >>> maybe I need to return to cleaning up distfiles/ by hand?
8 >
9 >> Yes, I see I have other things than .tar.bz2 too, now you mention it.
10 >
11 >> One of my boxes runs http-replicator to serve distfiles to the network. The
12 >> clean-up script I run after upgrades includes this line:
13 >> find /var/cache/http-replicator -ctime +182 -exec rm '-v' {} +
14 >
15 >> Also, have you tried eclean-dist, from app-portage/gentoolkit?
16 >
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18 > I'm not sure why, I figured I did not have to manually clean up
19 > /distfiles/ any more. for a period of time I could sware that
20 > it was a clean repository for compressed/tar source files only.....
21 >
22 > Now that I'm looking, it looks like a policy decision for the devs
23 > to formally evaluate. /distfiles/ should not be a dir for garbage,
24 > one-off-files and other such nonsense. It was (circa 2004 for me)
25 > a repository for compressed sources.
26 >
27 >
28 > Maybe we can get systemd to clean this up? It's the new "daddy"
29 > for all sorts of poorly wrtten codes, so why not add cleaning up
30 > /distfiles/ to it's new fiefdom?
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33 eclean <options> distfiles
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37 Lets not give Lennart extra ideas now, OK?
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42 > just teasing....(not really?).....ha ha ha ha ah ha ha ha ha.....
43 > Lennart can you help a bro out?
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46 > ;-)
47 > James
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57 --
58 Alan McKinnon
59 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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