Re: [gentoo-dev] Script to clean old files from /usr/portage/distfiles

[Nils Ohlmeier <lists@ohlmeier.de>]

On Tuesday 12 November 2002 18:56, José Fonseca wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:37:39PM +0100, Nils Ohlmeier wrote:
> > cloudcity sbin # distfiles-clean -p
> > sed: can't read /var/cache/edb/dep/sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19: No
> > such file or directory
> > alsa-lib-0.5.10b.tar.bz2
> > gaim-0.59.3.tar.bz2
> > j2sdk-1_4_1_01-linux-i586.bin *
>
> Unfortunately there is nothing one can do to know that the
> j2sdk-1_4_1_01-linux-i586.bin is used by sun-jdk-1.4.1.01.ebuild because
> it isn't listed there (SRC_URI=""). The only solution is have an option
> to pass a file with a list of wildcards of the packages wich should be
> left alone, for these situations.

Okay -i works good.

> > kde-i18n-3.0.4.tar.bz2 *
> > kde-i18n-gentoo.patch *
>
> Strange, these two files are listed on
> /var/cache/edb/dep/app-i18n/kde-i18n-3.0.4 in my system. Aren't they
> there in yours too? If not, see if doing
>
>   ebuild /usr/portage/app-i18n/kde-i18n/kde-i18n-3.0.4.ebuild depend
>
> helps.

Sorry my fault. I did not read carefull enough. The tar.bz2 can be removed, 
because i canceld the download after seeing the size of the file :)
And the patch is downloaded because of a bug.

> > rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm *
>
> rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm isn't a full URI with slashes '/' so it
> was being considered as junk by the script. It should be fixed now.

Yes fixed.

> > I marked the packets which are installed with an *. So removing of
> > this would  be to much :)
>
> Try again, with the script from
> http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/chest/gentoo/distfiles-clean [to
> avoid flood everybody inbox with more attachments], by doing
>
>   distfiles-clean -p -i ignorelist
>
> where ignorelist is a file containing
>
>   j2sdk-*.bin
>
> plus anything else you want.

Everything works for me now perfectly.
BTW i tested your skript on my one year old 1.2 installation and i gave me 
over 400MB diskspace back!

Definalty a candidate for gentoolkit IMHO.

Thanks
  Nils Ohlmeier


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