On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> Are there any tools that will: >>> >>> 1) Ensure that for every installed packages there is a corresponding >>> tbz2 file in /usr/portage/packages? >>> >>> 2) Remove any older versions in /usr/portage/packages prior to me >>> running a backup? >> >> >> I think app-portage/gentoolkit can help with its "eclean" tool >> (specifically, "eclean-pkg"). >> >> "man eclean" should get you started. > > And as an example of savings... I run eclean once in a while, but not > automated. I just ran it and got these results: > > [ 14.8 G ] Total space from 1673 files were freed in the distfiles directory > > I guess I should use it more frequently. ;) >
Hey Paul, I have absolutely no recollection of turning on buildpkg on my wife's machine, but doing updates tonight I noticed it was there and did a quick cleanup. While I didn't beat you, I came closer than I would have guessed just an hour ago! ;-) Cheers, Mark k2 ~ # eclean-pkg -d <SNIP> =========== [ 12.1 G ] Total space from 3793 files were freed in the packages directory k2 ~ #
