on Monday 05/04/2009 Mick([email protected]) wrote
> On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote:
> > on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger([email protected]) wrote
>
> > > > You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time
> > >
> > > Or in /var/log. Logrotate helps there and /var/log/portage can be
> > > cleaned up by a script that compresses everything older than 1 day (the
> > > test helps not to "disturb" a running portage or get ugly split logs).
> >
> > What I would really like to do is get rid of everything except the
> > most recent compile of each program in /var/log/portage -- anyone have a
> > script to do that?
>
> Check man emerge and read (carefully) --clean --depclean and --prune
> options.
> Use any of these judiciously because you can easily hose your box (if you
> get
> rid of your compiler for example).
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
I was only talking about getting rid of log files in /var/log/portage
where it keeps a record of each build of every program. Seems to me
only the most recent one is significant.
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John Covici
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