On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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> Ken Mankoff wrote:
>> I'm running OS X 10.5 and fink 0.27.9 dist 0.8.1.cvs
>>
>> I'm trying to save some space, but cleanup doesn't appear to be
>> doing much. I've checked the FAQ and the word 'cleanup' isn't
>> anywhere in it, nor do I see this addressed recently on the mail
>> list.
>>
>> I type "fink cleanup" and "fink cleanup --all" and nothing
>> appears to happen.
>>
>> /sw/src/ has 600MB of {tgz,bz2,gz} files
>>
>> /sw/fink/debs has 200+ files, mostly symlinks to
>> /sw/fink/10.5/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/
>> which has another few hundred megs.
>>
>> The cleanup messages state,
>> "Obsolete sources deleted from /sw/src: 0"
>>
>> But there are files there I've installed and then removed or
>> purged. How do I get fink to really clean up after itself? Should
>> I be using dpkg or apt commands instead of the fink interface?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -k.
>>
> Those aren't "obsolete". "fink cleanup" only removes a .deb file
> when a newer version is present.
So 'cleanup' won't remove large amount of source and deb files
taking up space. Is there another 'offical' command to do this?
Or is it safe and reasonable to do the following. Disk space is
worth more than bandwidth to me.
rm /sw/src/*
find /sw/fink/10.5/ -name "*.deb" -exec rm {} \;
Thanks,
-k.
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