On 29 Jun 2009, at 14:59, Daniel Macks wrote: > 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.
I assume there is no harm in "sudo rm -fr /sw/src/*" to clean out all source files. Fink would download any needed sources again the next time a package rebuild was required. It would also remove the fink.build directory, but I assume that it would be recreated when the next package was built. Is this a safe assumption? How about "sudo apt-get clean", which cleans out all .deb files. Will that confuse fink in any way? Kevin Horton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
