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

[Marko Mikulicic <marko@seul.org>]

José Fonseca wrote:
> I never do `rm -f /usr/portage/distfiles'. I find very useful having the
> sources of the installed packages ihandy as it avoids downloading
> everything over andagain when updating to new releases of the same
> version, or when installing Gentoo on another system. But after some
> time that directory gets too fat and is too boring to eliminate the
> deprecated packages by hand so I've made a script to automate this. You
> can see it attached.
You read my mind!
I was just thinking  "i'd like to have a script that ...."
and you come out with this. great.
thanks. I should think more often :-)

It would be nice if this script would appear in gentoolkit...

> 
> I've started with a shell script, then python, then I've read qpkg.sh,
> ebuild.sh, portage.py and many others in the search of the easiest way
> to do this. In the end everything boiled down to 2 lines - the rest is
> just sintatic sugar!
nice. I just love when sed transforms the command line in completely 
unreadable magic :-)

How would be to make it a bit shorter and more configurable in one shot ?:

-PORTDIR=/usr/portage
-DISTDIR=$PORTDIR/distfiles
-CACHEDIR=$PORTDIR/metadata/cache
-PKGDBDIR=/var/db/pkg
+. /etc/make.globals;. /etc/make.conf

(or: for i in /etc/make.{globals,conf} do . $i;done )
Marko


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