On 13/08/2014 18:55, James wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes:
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>> On Wednesday 13 August 2014 15:07:19 James wrote:
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>>> maybe I need to return to cleaning up distfiles/ by hand?
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>> Yes, I see I have other things than .tar.bz2 too, now you mention it.
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>> One of my boxes runs http-replicator to serve distfiles to the network. The
>> clean-up script I run after upgrades includes this line:
>> find /var/cache/http-replicator -ctime +182 -exec rm '-v' {} +
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>> Also, have you tried eclean-dist, from app-portage/gentoolkit?
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> I'm not sure why, I figured I did not have to manually clean up
> /distfiles/ any more. for a period of time I could sware that
> it was a clean repository for compressed/tar source files only.....
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> Now that I'm looking, it looks like a policy decision for the devs
> to formally evaluate. /distfiles/ should not be a dir for garbage,
> one-off-files and other such nonsense. It was (circa 2004 for me)
> a repository for compressed sources.
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> Maybe we can get systemd to clean this up? It's the new "daddy"
> for all sorts of poorly wrtten codes, so why not add cleaning up
> /distfiles/ to it's new fiefdom?
eclean <options> distfiles
Lets not give Lennart extra ideas now, OK?
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> just teasing....(not really?).....ha ha ha ha ah ha ha ha ha.....
> Lennart can you help a bro out?
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