Re: [yocto] Safely cleaning 'downloads'

2015-10-02 Thread Laurentiu Palcu
Hi Garry, It's probably a little late (I'm not reading the Yocto mailing lists very often now) but sometime ago I ran out of space myself and I wrote this script that I sent out on oe-core mailing list. It did the job for me. For some reason it didn't make it in master but maybe you find it

Re: [yocto] Safely cleaning 'downloads'

2015-10-01 Thread Smith, Virgil
From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- > boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Gary Thomas > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 7:14 AM > To: Yocto Project > Subject: [yocto] Safely cleaning 'downloads' > > Over time, I tend to build in the same build tree many, ma

Re: [yocto] Safely cleaning 'downloads'

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher Larson
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2015-10-01 10:38, Smith, Virgil wrote: > >> The following is roughly the procedure I follow and that works for me. >> Maybe someone could chime in with how some of this should be trimmed based >> on yocto/bitbake

Re: [yocto] Safely cleaning 'downloads'

2015-10-01 Thread Gary Thomas
o:yocto- boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Gary Thomas Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 7:14 AM To: Yocto Project Subject: [yocto] Safely cleaning 'downloads' Over time, I tend to build in the same build tree many, many times. This leads to some really big trees as many things a

Re: [yocto] Safely cleaning 'downloads'

2015-10-01 Thread Martin Jansa
On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 09:54:51AM -0700, Christopher Larson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Gary Thomas wrote: > > > On 2015-10-01 10:38, Smith, Virgil wrote: > > > >> The following is roughly the procedure I follow and that works for me. > >> Maybe someone could

Re: [yocto] Safely cleaning 'downloads'

2015-10-01 Thread Gary Thomas
On 2015-10-01 10:54, Christopher Larson wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Gary Thomas > wrote: On 2015-10-01 10:38, Smith, Virgil wrote: The following is roughly the procedure I follow and that works for me. Maybe someone could

[yocto] Safely cleaning 'downloads'

2015-09-30 Thread Gary Thomas
Over time, I tend to build in the same build tree many, many times. This leads to some really big trees as many things are duplicated, especially in the 'downloads' directory. I use local mirrors and hence my 'downloads' directory is _mostly_ populated with symbolic links. However, there are