[gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :)

[gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :)

[KRimminal]

well, this ideea has been passed around on the gentoo forum, but no
steps have been taken.
the issue is: 'deletion of old distfiles'.
well, the code is in the forums, can someone check it and put it in the
portage tree ?


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Re: [gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :)

[Brian Harring]

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On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 05:36, KRimminal wrote:
> well, this ideea has been passed around on the gentoo forum, but no
> steps have been taken.
> the issue is: 'deletion of old distfiles'.
> well, the code is in the forums, can someone check it and put it in the
> portage tree ?
I'd touched on inclusion of a distfiles cleaning utility in glep25-
regardless if the glep gets accepted or not, I think it would be a
useful addition to app-portage/gentoolkit.

I've personally been using a modified distclean, no complaints with it.
~brian

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Re: [gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :)

[Xavier Neys]

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Brian Harring wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 05:36, KRimminal wrote:
> 
>>well, this ideea has been passed around on the gentoo forum, but no
>>steps have been taken.
>>the issue is: 'deletion of old distfiles'.
>>well, the code is in the forums, can someone check it and put it in the
>>portage tree ?
> 
> I'd touched on inclusion of a distfiles cleaning utility in glep25-
> regardless if the glep gets accepted or not, I think it would be a
> useful addition to app-portage/gentoolkit.
> 
> I've personally been using a modified distclean, no complaints with it.
> ~brian

For what it's worth, this is how I list my unused distfiles:

# find /usr/portage/distfiles -type f -not \( `emerge -epf world 2>&1|awk 
'BEGIN{mino=""}{n=split($1,a,"/");if(n>1){print mino,"-name ",a[n];mino=" -o 
"}}'` \)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :)

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 06:36, KRimminal wrote:
> well, this ideea has been passed around on the gentoo forum, but no
> steps have been taken.
> the issue is: 'deletion of old distfiles'.
> well, the code is in the forums, can someone check it and put it in the
> portage tree ?

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33877

This bug is a good place for these concerns.  You might want to check
out the script there.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :)

[KRimminal]

Xavier Neys wrote:

> Brian Harring wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 05:36, KRimminal wrote:
>>
>>> well, this ideea has been passed around on the gentoo forum, but no
>>> steps have been taken.
>>> the issue is: 'deletion of old distfiles'.
>>> well, the code is in the forums, can someone check it and put it in the
>>> portage tree ?
>>
>>
>> I'd touched on inclusion of a distfiles cleaning utility in glep25-
>> regardless if the glep gets accepted or not, I think it would be a
>> useful addition to app-portage/gentoolkit.
>>
>> I've personally been using a modified distclean, no complaints with it.
>> ~brian
>
>
> For what it's worth, this is how I list my unused distfiles:
>
> # find /usr/portage/distfiles -type f -not \( `emerge -epf world 
> 2>&1|awk 'BEGIN{mino=""}{n=split($1,a,"/");if(n>1){print mino,"-name 
> ",a[n];mino=" -o "}}'` \)
>
i wasn't talking about the unused ones, just the ones that have newer 
downloaded releases.
like portage-1-2-3-4
would be replaced by portage-2-3-4-5
thus making portage-1-2-3-4 obsolete, and so, a clutter.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :)

[Drake Wyrm]

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On Wed, 2004-04-14, 23:36:24 +0300, in <407DA0C8.9050507@go.ro>,
KRimminal <krimminal@go.ro> wrote:

[snip]
> i wasn't talking about the unused ones, just the ones that have newer
> downloaded releases. like portage-1-2-3-4 would be replaced by
> portage-2-3-4-5 thus making portage-1-2-3-4 obsolete, and so, a
> clutter.

Random thoughts:

1. When updating a package, say from foo-1.2 to foo-2.3, move the
sources for foo-1.2 from $DISTDIR to $DISTDIR/old. Portage can still
find the sources (once it's updated to look in $DISTDIR/old also), but
can be manually scrubbed.

2. Change ebuild.sh so that it "installs" the sources in $DISTDIR. When
packages are unmerged and/or updated, the cruft will vanish. Those who
dislike that behavior can add $DISTDIR to their CONFIG_PROTECT. Even a
cfg-protected distdir would be easier to maintain.

	bash-2.05b$ equery belongs /usr/portage/distfiles/foo-2.3.tbz2
	Searching for '/usr/portage/distfiles/foo-2.3.tbz2'...
	sys-misc/foo-2.3 (/usr/portage/distfiles/foo-2.3.tbz2)
	bash-2.05b$ equery belongs /usr/portage/distfiles/foo-1.2.tbz2
	Searching for '/usr/portage/distfiles/foo-1.2.tbz2'...
	bash-2.05b$


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