Package: cowbuilder
Version: 0.88
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
I've been using cowbuilder a long time. I recently noticed that I had
~20gigs of stuff in /var/cache/pbuilder/build:
.../pbuilder/build $ ls -ld cow.[02-9]*
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dez 29 17:06 cow.21198
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Nov 23 22:48 cow.21823
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jän 9 2020 cow.22112
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Dez 13 00:31 cow.22971
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Dez 12 22:51 cow.23828
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Okt 8 18:01 cow.27699
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jän 3 15:05 cow.28802
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Mai 14 2020 cow.30699
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Aug 19 2020 cow.30973
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Nov 24 14:38 cow.4974
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Mai 26 2020 cow.6459
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jän 3 16:28 cow.7114
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dez 13 00:08 cow.7734
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Feb 15 13:21 cow.8510
There were no active sessions, so it seems these are just forgotten
detritus. I propose adding a cron job to clean those up. I attached
one that works for me.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (100,
'proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages cowbuilder depends on:
ii cowdancer 0.88
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libncurses6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
ii pbuilder 0.230.4
cowbuilder recommends no packages.
cowbuilder suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
#!/bin/sh -e
for f in /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.[0-9]*; do
test -d "$f" || continue
kill -0 `echo $(basename $f) | sed s',cow\.,,'` 2> /dev/null && continue
rm -rf --one-file-system "$f"
done
