On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 07:42:34PM +0100, Etienne Roesch wrote: > > Dear list, > > I have been using fink for a few years now, performing the occasional > self-update and update of packages when needed. Once in a while, > something in the installation process wouldn't work, but most of the > time I found workaround and it is all good in the best possible world. > > On Sunday, I decided I would install kde. Unfortunately, something did > go wrong - and I am still unsure how to solve it, but that is not the > reason for my email. Installing kde requires A LOT of packages, and > now /sw weighs a good 4.41 Go. Most of it comes from tgz and deb > files, which the cleanup command doesn't seem to see. (I assume that > if the installation had worked okay, most of these files would have > been removed, hmm) > > My questions: > 1) How safe is it to manually remove source and deb files? > 2) Is it going to affect the installation trees? > 3) What is a sanitary way of handling installations, if cleanup > doesn't seem to do what it's supposed to do?
1. Fink will redownload any sources it needs if you do something that needs them (i.e., (re)compile a package in order to (re)install it). Fink will recompile (or perhaps try to download) and .deb it needs it oyu do something that needs them (i.e., (re)install a package). 2. Sources and deb files are not the "live" packages, but part of the package-management system to save you from having to redownload and recompile the same thing at some time in the future. Depending on the package suite, that might be trivial or it might be a day or more of CPU time. Fink never removes these automatically--seems like you're mis-assuming (based on...?) how fink will work and then seeing it as a functional bug that it's not working that way. 3. Cleanup does exactly what it claims to do...remove useless or obsolete stuff. Sources and debs for existing and current packages are not useles and obsolete because...well, see #1 and #2. You're asking for something that is different from the goal of normal cleanup. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
