Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles contains extra files?
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:37 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles only contains tar files. I have not clean up the system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my /usr/local/ needs. But I do not remember ever seeing any types of files other than compressed tar files in /distfiles/ Now I have (sampling): *.pathch I thought all patch files where kept in the subdirs where the ebuilds are located (files dir)? It is still where most *.patch files are located. *.exe (like verdan32.exe webdin32.exe ) and many others (here's a sample from /usr/portage/distfiles): scons-2.3.0-user.html scons-2.3.0-user.pdf scrollkeeper-omf.dtd seamonkey-2.26.1-en-GB.xpi rdoc-4.0.1.gem readline62-004 rfc2307bis.schema-20140524 nmap-logo-64.png gobject-introspection-1.40.0.tar.xz._checksum_failure_.146ofr I guess I need enlightenment ? Also, in the past I have manually aged/pruned or size/prunded the disfiles dir, but I stopped doing that in the age of 2T+ sized drivesmaybe I need to return to cleaning up distfiles/ by hand? curiously, James What distfiles are present there depend on the ebuilds. I use geek-sources from init6 overlay, it stores VCS repositories there.
[gentoo-user] distfiles contains extra files?
I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles only contains tar files. I have not clean up the system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my /usr/local/ needs. But I do not remember ever seeing any types of files other than compressed tar files in /distfiles/ Now I have (sampling): *.pathch I thought all patch files where kept in the subdirs where the ebuilds are located (files dir)? It is still where most *.patch files are located. *.exe (like verdan32.exe webdin32.exe ) and many others (here's a sample from /usr/portage/distfiles): scons-2.3.0-user.html scons-2.3.0-user.pdf scrollkeeper-omf.dtd seamonkey-2.26.1-en-GB.xpi rdoc-4.0.1.gem readline62-004 rfc2307bis.schema-20140524 nmap-logo-64.png gobject-introspection-1.40.0.tar.xz._checksum_failure_.146ofr I guess I need enlightenment ? Also, in the past I have manually aged/pruned or size/prunded the disfiles dir, but I stopped doing that in the age of 2T+ sized drivesmaybe I need to return to cleaning up distfiles/ by hand? curiously, James
Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles contains extra files?
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:07:19 + (UTC), James wrote: I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles only contains tar files. I have not clean up the system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my /usr/local/ needs. It contains everything downloaded by ebuilds. But I do not remember ever seeing any types of files other than compressed tar files in /distfiles/ Now I have (sampling): *.pathch I thought all patch files where kept in the subdirs where the ebuilds are located (files dir)? It is still where most *.patch files are located. ISTR the policy is to only include smaller patch files in the tree, large patches are downloaded to avoid everyone having to sync them. *.exe (like verdan32.exe webdin32.exe ) These are the installers for the MS corefonts. I guess I need enlightenment ? You can use whichever DE you prefer :) Also, in the past I have manually aged/pruned or size/prunded the disfiles dir, but I stopped doing that in the age of 2T+ sized drivesmaybe I need to return to cleaning up distfiles/ by hand? You can use eclean to remove obsolete distfiles and packages. But don't use eclean on a shared $DISTDIR. -- Neil Bothwick God is real, unless specifically declared integer. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles contains extra files?
On Wednesday 13 August 2014 15:07:19 James wrote:
I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles
only contains tar files. I have not clean up the
system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my
/usr/local/ needs.
But I do not remember ever seeing any types of files
other than compressed tar files in /distfiles/
Now I have (sampling):
*.pathch
I thought all patch files where kept in the subdirs where the
ebuilds are located (files dir)? It is still where most *.patch
files are located.
*.exe (like verdan32.exe webdin32.exe )
and many others (here's a sample from /usr/portage/distfiles):
scons-2.3.0-user.html
scons-2.3.0-user.pdf
scrollkeeper-omf.dtd
seamonkey-2.26.1-en-GB.xpi
rdoc-4.0.1.gem
readline62-004
rfc2307bis.schema-20140524
nmap-logo-64.png
gobject-introspection-1.40.0.tar.xz._checksum_failure_.146ofr
I guess I need enlightenment ?
Also, in the past I have manually aged/pruned or size/prunded
the disfiles dir, but I stopped doing that in the age
of 2T+ sized drivesmaybe I need to return to cleaning up
distfiles/ by hand?
Yes, I see I have other things than .tar.bz2 too, now you mention it.
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' {} +
Also, have you tried eclean-dist, from app-portage/gentoolkit?
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Regards
Peter
