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tuxitop

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From: Mashhad, Iran

Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 24

How to remove old packages no matter installed or not from the cache?

I'm aware of the "pacman -Sc" command but I need a way to delete a package if there is a newer version of it in the cache folder (or maybe in repositories).

Is there any way to do that?

lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 1,722

Re: How to remove old packages no matter installed or not from the cache?

I searched a bit for you:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=841774

Edit: Hmm, I you may do this using "CleanMethod = KeepCurrent" in pacman.conf.

Last edited by lolilolicon (2011-08-06 10:16:55)

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Shark

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From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2011-02-28

Posts: 686

Re: How to remove old packages no matter installed or not from the cache?

From pacman manpage:

-c, --clean

    Remove packages that are no longer installed from the cache as well as currently unused sync databases to free up disk space. When pacman downloads packages, it saves them in a cache directory. In addition, databases are saved for every sync DB you download from, and are not deleted even if they are removed from the configuration file pacman.conf(5). Use one --clean switch to only remove packages that are no longer installed; use two to remove all packages from the cache. In both cases, you will have a yes or no option to remove packages and/or unused downloaded databases.
 

So, to remove all packages from cache you have to write option c twice:

pacman -Scc

Last edited by Shark (2011-08-06 10:21:57)

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tuxitop

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From: Mashhad, Iran

Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 24

Re: How to remove old packages no matter installed or not from the cache?

you may do this using "CleanMethod = KeepCurrent" in pacman.conf.

thanks. I think this is exactly what I need. although I have already written a script for this! how dumb am I?! I should have checked here sooner.

sitquietly

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From: On the Wolf River

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 220

Re: How to remove old packages no matter installed or not from the cache?

you may do this using "CleanMethod = KeepCurrent" in pacman.conf.

thanks. I think this is exactly what I need. although I have already written a script for this...

I would like to see your script. Could you post it here?

tuxitop

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From: Mashhad, Iran

Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 24

Re: How to remove old packages no matter installed or not from the cache?

I would like to see your script. Could you post it here?

I have already posted it here and I've got a couple of nice feedbacks on that
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 26#p990126