James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/05, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Douglas Soares de Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Mark and the gang ! > > > > > > Em Quarta 28 Setembro 2005 00:18, Mark Rosenstand escreveu: > > > > 3. Sync option to remove package tarballs for packages not installed on > > > > the > > > > system. > > > > > > > > With the current cleaning options (-c), trying out fooapp and > > > > deciding > > > > that it sucks will keep /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fooapp-1.0.pkg.tar.gz > > > > until a > > > > new version of fooapp are in the repos. Since fooapp 1.0 sucks, I > > > > probably > > > > won't install it again, and if people tell me that 1.1 kicks ass I'll > > > > have > > > > to do a download anyway. > > > > > > I wish this too, since i really have tons of binaries. > > > > You can use the attached shell script to do it while it isn't > > implemented in pacman. > > > > although AFAIK you can do pacman -Scc to clear *all*, so pacman has > it, but it must be undocumented. > > what also works is > > rm -rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/* > > or at least, that's my preference
That is not the suggested behaviour. The point is to keep package files for installed packages while removing all other package files. Please take a look at the previously attached 375 bytes. -- .-. Mark Rosenstand (-.) oo| cc ) /`'\ (+45) 255 31337 3-n-( (\_;/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _(|/`-> _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
