[gentoo-user] managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

[gentoo-user] managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

[Philip Webb]

Besides having rescue instances of system pkgs in  /usr/portage/packages ,
I also try to remember to keep a quickpkg of LibreOffice there too.
Creating these files is easy, but is there an approved way of managing them,
esp of deleting obsolete versions, beyond a simple 'rm' ?
I notice there's a log file 'Packages' in the dir,
which suggests there sb some method of removing unwanted ones.

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Re: [gentoo-user] managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

[Dale]

Philip Webb wrote:
> Besides having rescue instances of system pkgs in  /usr/portage/packages ,
> I also try to remember to keep a quickpkg of LibreOffice there too.
> Creating these files is easy, but is there an approved way of managing them,
> esp of deleting obsolete versions, beyond a simple 'rm' ?
> I notice there's a log file 'Packages' in the dir,
> which suggests there sb some method of removing unwanted ones.
> 


man eclean.  The exact thing you want is eclean-pkg but this can also
manage your distfiles too.

Dale

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[gentoo-user] Re: managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

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On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:04:48 -0600
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Philip Webb wrote:
> > Besides having rescue instances of system pkgs
> > in  /usr/portage/packages , I also try to remember to keep a
> > quickpkg of LibreOffice there too. Creating these files is easy,
> > but is there an approved way of managing them, esp of deleting
> > obsolete versions, beyond a simple 'rm' ? I notice there's a log
> > file 'Packages' in the dir, which suggests there sb some method of
> > removing unwanted ones.
> 
> man eclean.  The exact thing you want is eclean-pkg but this can also
> manage your distfiles too.

or 

emerge gentoolkit && man eclean

Re: [gentoo-user] managing files in /usr/portage/packages/

[Philip Webb]

120122 Dale wrote:
> Philip Webb wrote:
>> Besides having rescue instances of system pkgs in  /usr/portage/packages ,
>> I also try to remember to keep a quickpkg of LibreOffice there too.
>> Creating these files is easy, but is there an approved way of managing them,
>> esp of deleting obsolete versions, beyond a simple 'rm' ?
>> I notice there's a log file 'Packages' in the dir,
>> which suggests there sb some method of removing unwanted ones.
> 'man eclean'.  The exact thing you want is 'eclean-pkg',
> but this can also manage your distfiles too.

Thanks lots ! -- I knew re 'eclean' for distfiles,
but didn't realise it cb used to clean out obsolete rescue pkgs too.
As always, it's best to use the  -p  flag before doing the real job.

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