At 14:36 Uhr +0100 01.02.2002, Martin Costabel wrote:
>Max Horn wrote:
>
>> So right now there is no "official" way to clean up your system. I
>> have in my head a sketch for a simple command that will remove all
>> unused source files. Removing all "unused" .deb files is a bit more
>> tricky since it depends on how exactly you'd define "unused". E.g. do
>> you want to remove all .deb files for packages that are not
>> installed? I wouldn't like that, but maybe others do. Or, something
>> I'd prefer, remove all .deb's for which there is a newer version
>> around. Whatever, it has to be implemented first :)
>
>Since this is not something one does every day, it's probably not very
>important to have Fink do it automatically.
I never intended it to be automatic, in fact. Rather to provide a
command "fink cleanup".
> One can do something like
>the following on the command line:
>
>fink scanpackages |& grep "ignored data" | awk '{print $8}'
>
>This gives a list of all .debs where a newer version exists. One can
>pipe this through 'xargs sudo rm' to remove them all, or save the list
>in a file, remove those one wants to keep (like automake-1.4-p5 or
>qt-2.3.1, as long as there are no automake14 and qt2 packages available)
>and then pipe the listing of this file through xargs rm.
>
>Another thing to do then is to clean up the symlink list in
>/sw/fink/debs. This does not free a lot of space, I just don't like to
>have hundreds of broken symlinks sitting around. In bash, one can say
>something like
>
>for DEB in /sw/fink/debs/*.deb ; do (file $DEB |grep broken) && sudo rm
>$DEB; done
All of this could also easily be implemented inside of FInk, and
probably even more efficient :) So I'd prefer that. However, until
somebody gets around to do it actually, it might be a nice to have
some sort of shell script for this, agreed.
Max
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