[gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

[gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

[Xi Shen]

Hi,

as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
any way, or any tool to help with this task?


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David Shen

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

[Pintér Tibor]

Xi Shen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
> packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
> when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
> any way, or any tool to help with this task?
> 
> 

find .... -exec.... ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

[Renat Golubchyk]

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Hi!

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 22:59:09 +0800
Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com> wrote:
> as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
> packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
> when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
> any way, or any tool to help with this task?

Check out eclean from app-portage/gentoolkit.


Cheers,
Renat

-- 
Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen,
durch die sie entstanden sind.
                                              (Einstein)

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 22:59:09 +0800, Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
> packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
> when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
> any way, or any tool to help with this task?

emerge gentoolkit
eclean -d distfiles
-- 
Jesús Guerrero

Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

[William Hubbs]

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Hi David,

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:59:09PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
> packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
> when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
> any way, or any tool to help with this task?
 
Yes, there is a tool called eclean which will handle this.  It is in the
gentoolkit package, so emerge gentoolkit and you should have it.

Thanks,

-- 
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

[Florian Philipp]

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Xi Shen schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
> packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
> when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
> any way, or any tool to help with this task?
> 
> 

Take a look at eclean-dist. It belongs to app-portage/gentoolkit.

A normal call removes all packages that are no longer in the portage
tree. A call with -d removes everything that's not installed at the moment.

Hope this helps
Florian Philipp


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Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Dienstag, 1. September 2009 schrieb Xi Shen:
> Hi,
>
> as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
> packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
> when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
> any way, or any tool to help with this task?

Whenever I do some updates, afterwards I go into my distfiles folder with 
krusader, sort by date and select the newly added files.
Then I sort by name again and scroll through the list. Because the new ones 
are marked, I can find them easily and see whether there are old versions of 
them right next to them. If so, I select the old version. Then I deselect the 
old version. And when I'm through the list, I can delete everything that is 
still selected.

This is more thorough than eclean, which by far doesn't find everything.
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

[Xi Shen]

thanks you all. will try the eclean out ;)


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Frank Steinmetzger<Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 1. September 2009 schrieb Xi Shen:
>> Hi,
>>
>> as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
>> packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
>> when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
>> any way, or any tool to help with this task?
>
> Whenever I do some updates, afterwards I go into my distfiles folder with
> krusader, sort by date and select the newly added files.
> Then I sort by name again and scroll through the list. Because the new ones
> are marked, I can find them easily and see whether there are old versions of
> them right next to them. If so, I select the old version. Then I deselect the
> old version. And when I'm through the list, I can delete everything that is
> still selected.
>
> This is more thorough than eclean, which by far doesn't find everything.
> --
> Gruß | Greetings | Qapla'
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>



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Best Regards,
David Shen

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