[gentoo-soc] New idea: network eclean

[gentoo-soc] New idea: network eclean

[Dmitry Bashkatov]

Hello! I have an idea for GSoC. There is tool called eclean. It is
really helpful to clean unneeded distfiles. But it is very popular to
share the same distfiles location between number of machines via NFS.
And calling eclean from one machine deletes distfiles that may be
useful for others.
Idea is to create network eclean. That will gather information about
wanted distfiles from all machines listed in some file and then do
delete. Hosts file by default contains only localhost.

What do you think about it?
This is easy task, so it can be united with other gsoc idea.

Re: [gentoo-soc] New idea: network eclean

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Dmitry Bashkatov <me@nailgun.name> wrote:
> Hello! I have an idea for GSoC. There is tool called eclean. It is
> really helpful to clean unneeded distfiles. But it is very popular to
> share the same distfiles location between number of machines via NFS.
> And calling eclean from one machine deletes distfiles that may be
> useful for others.
> Idea is to create network eclean. That will gather information about
> wanted distfiles from all machines listed in some file and then do
> delete. Hosts file by default contains only localhost.
>
> What do you think about it?
> This is easy task, so it can be united with other gsoc idea.
>

This can already be done if you run `eclean -pCq` on all the machines,
and only delete the files which are common among all those lists. It's
pretty easy to hack up a script to ssh into all the machines, run the
command, gather the lists, and find the intersection of them all.

Personally, I don't see how this is more than a 2hr job.

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

Re: [gentoo-soc] New idea: network eclean

[Dmitry Bashkatov]

2010/3/18 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Dmitry Bashkatov <me@nailgun.name> wrote:
>> Hello! I have an idea for GSoC. There is tool called eclean. It is
>> really helpful to clean unneeded distfiles. But it is very popular to
>> share the same distfiles location between number of machines via NFS.
>> And calling eclean from one machine deletes distfiles that may be
>> useful for others.
>> Idea is to create network eclean. That will gather information about
>> wanted distfiles from all machines listed in some file and then do
>> delete. Hosts file by default contains only localhost.
>>
>> What do you think about it?
>> This is easy task, so it can be united with other gsoc idea.
>>
>
> This can already be done if you run `eclean -pCq` on all the machines,
> and only delete the files which are common among all those lists. It's
> pretty easy to hack up a script to ssh into all the machines, run the
> command, gather the lists, and find the intersection of them all.
>
> Personally, I don't see how this is more than a 2hr job.
>
> --
> ~Nirbheek Chauhan
>
> Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
>
>

Yes, I have already wrote a script. But it will be better to include
this functionality to eclean.

Re: [gentoo-soc] New idea: network eclean

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 17:22 Thu 18 Mar     , Dmitry Bashkatov wrote:
> Yes, I have already wrote a script. But it will be better to include
> this functionality to eclean.

From IRC today:

< dol-sen > dberkholz: since I'm not on hte gsoc mail list: regarding 
http://ln-s.net/5HsJ can you inform him that the eclean re-write I'm 
just completing has a spot ready to accept any additional checks for 
just such a purpose.

< dol-sen > All that would be needed is a module to do the network check 
and add a config option to load it

< dol-sen > the eclean re-write will be included in 
gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc10

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Admin, Summer of Code
Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com