From: "Benedikt Böhm" <hollow@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC][NEW] Utility to find orphaned files
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:43:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w2u477338b91004251043qc66058d5w2aec4985d0ceb29f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD42501.9070505@gentoo.org>
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Angelo Arrifano <miknix@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hello developers developers and developers,
>
> Ever wondered how much crap is left in your X-years old Gentoo box?
>
> I just developed a python utility to efficiently find orphaned files in
> the system. By orphaned files I mean the files that are present on
> system directories and don't belong to any installed package.
>
> The package builds a virtual filesystem (cache) on the RAM using python
> hash tables. Then it uses the cache to find the ownership of files
> inside user-specified dirs.
>
> Building the cache takes less than 10 seconds here in a system with 1366
> installed packages.
>
> This is not intended to be a finished program yet, I'm looking forward
> for your constructive commentaries.
i have refactored findcruft (search the forums) two years ago (see
http://git.xnull.de/cgit/findcruft2/), maybe you can take a look at
it, especially the false-positives handling.
HTH,
Bene
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-25 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-25 11:18 [gentoo-dev] [RFC][NEW] Utility to find orphaned files Angelo Arrifano
2010-04-25 11:45 ` Brian Harring
2010-04-25 13:43 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2010-04-30 16:24 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-05-03 13:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Hjalmarsson
2010-05-11 13:08 ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-04-25 15:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Yuri Vasilevski
2010-04-25 17:10 ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-04-25 17:43 ` Benedikt Böhm [this message]
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