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Ken Mankoff wrote:
> 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.
>
"cleanup" is intended to remove .debs and/or sources that don't
correspond to installed versions, but leave those
You're certainly free to remove the .debs and sources manually.
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