Very nice! Thanks, I had started to think some more about the problem, and you have solved it most elequently.
Lincoln On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:00:58AM -0700, Zack Gilburd wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > > On Thursday 12 June 2003 07:58, keanu wrote: > > > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 20:51, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > > > Does anybody has a script for removing old > > > > files from /usr/portage/packages ? > > > > > > > > I have been accumalating package files (*.tbz2) > > > > produced by emerge whith the --buildpkg option. > > > > Now I want to (automatically) remove the older > > > > ones if there are different versions for the > > > > same package. > > > > > > There are a few scripts on the gentoo forums (some better then others) > > > under the Documentation, Tips & Tricks section if i'm not mistaken (you'll > > > find alot of usefull stuff there) > > > > > > i don't have time to look for the actual script, but it shouldn't be hard > > > to find > > > > Unfortunately, the only scripts that I could find that would be even close to > > fitting the bill aren't for /usr/portage/packages, but rather they're for > > /usr/portage/distfiles. > > In the topic discussed at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=23027 > there is two scripts for cleaning both the distfiles and the packages > subdirectories of the portage directory, based on which packages > are not currently installed. > > In the topic http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3011 one can > find also a script for cleaning the distfiles subdirectory, based on the > existence of a related ebuild in the portage hierarchy. I have > adapted it for cleaning the packages subdirectory. Those scripts > are more conservative as they keep any distfile or package file > for which there is an ebuild. Those scripts are attached. They > do not remove the files itself, but outputs their name to the > standard output. > > Romildo -- Lincoln A. Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
