* [gentoo-user] How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ? @ 2009-01-28 6:44 Nikos Chantziaras 2009-01-28 23:18 ` Shawn Haggett 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2009-01-28 6:44 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ? 2009-01-28 6:44 [gentoo-user] How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ? Nikos Chantziaras @ 2009-01-28 23:18 ` Shawn Haggett 2009-01-28 23:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Shawn Haggett @ 2009-01-28 23:18 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user On Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:14:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with > 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by > hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed. You want to get rid of ALL of them? rm -rf /usr/portage/packages/* Shawn ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* [gentoo-user] Re: How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ? 2009-01-28 23:18 ` Shawn Haggett @ 2009-01-28 23:41 ` Nikos Chantziaras 2009-01-29 0:48 ` Neil Bothwick 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2009-01-28 23:41 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user Shawn Haggett wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:14:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with >> 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by >> hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed. > > You want to get rid of ALL of them? > > rm -rf /usr/portage/packages/* If that's safe, then I guess that'll do :P ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ? 2009-01-28 23:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras @ 2009-01-29 0:48 ` Neil Bothwick 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Neil Bothwick @ 2009-01-29 0:48 UTC (permalink / raw To: gentoo-user [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 471 bytes --] On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:41:23 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > You want to get rid of ALL of them? > > > > rm -rf /usr/portage/packages/* > > If that's safe, then I guess that'll do :P Even rm -fr /usr/portage/packages is safe. If you want to do it selectively, remove the tbz2 files from ${PKGDIR}/ All then use symlinks (or find) to get rid of the dangling links this leaves. -- Neil Bothwick Never kiss anything that doesn't have lips. [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 197 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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