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

[Marko Mikulicic <marko@seul.org>]

José Fonseca wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:42:41AM +0100, Johannes Ball? wrote:
> 
>>Am Monday 11 November 2002 21:38 schrieb José Fonseca:
>>

>>
>>sed: can't read /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19: 
>>No such file or directory
> 
> [...]
> 
> These are packages which were installed from your '/usr/local/portage'
> or were removed from portage.

I ran "emerge linux-headers"
emerge (1 of 1) sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19

/var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19     exists
/usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19  does not exist

/var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.18     does not exist
/usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.18  exists

it seems strange to me. the cache is not up to date.
Is there a way to force the ebuild of the cache ?

> I could write a variation of the script without these shortcomings -
> that actually read the installed ebuilds which is *much* slower. I
> personally don't need it as I only have little stuff in
> /usr/local/portage
> 
> If there is enough interest I'll add a couple of operation modes to the
> script: "dummy", and "safe"; to make a dry-run and/or a safe evaluation
> of the installed packages repectively.

I'd have enough interest :-) . I never do an emerge whatever without "-p"
first. even if this data is not lost forever I have the habit of 
checking first.

Marko


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