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Fieser

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Registered: 2012-04-26

Posts: 11

Show news, update & cleanup Skript

I hacked a small script which automates my steps to update the system. first, it shows the latest 3 arch news for the user to check whether the devs wrote something of relevance lately, then it runs a full system update, removes orphanes, frees pacman caches and deletes unneeded locales and manpages.

Here is a link for download and more details:
http://my-fuzzy-logic.de/blog/index.php … cript.html

and a pretty self-explaining screenie:

Last edited by Fieser (2012-07-12 21:18:13)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Show news, update & cleanup Skript

I'd like to point out that you updated your system and immediately removed the previous (i.e. working) packages w/o testing the new ones. There are scripts that allow you to keep e.g. last n versions.

'orphanes' should be written as 'orphans' - w/o the 'e'.

Fieser

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Registered: 2012-04-26

Posts: 11

Re: Show news, update & cleanup Skript

yeah i know that script is pretty drastic in deleting things, thats because its mainly for my eee pc with a harddisk of 4gb, so i wanted to minimize space usage as much as possible

Last edited by Fieser (2012-07-14 01:39:30)

guelfi

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Registered: 2011-07-01

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Re: Show news, update & cleanup Skript

...and you minimize your space usage by using GNOME 3?

Last edited by guelfi (2012-07-14 11:46:33)

Fieser

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Registered: 2012-04-26

Posts: 11

Re: Show news, update & cleanup Skript

thats a valid point^^ my system w/o user dir is 2.2g big atm, i tried gnome in march for the first time and fell in love with it, and what wouldn't one do for the love?

Fieser

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Registered: 2012-04-26

Posts: 11

Re: Show news, update & cleanup Skript

Update: typo was corrected and the downloadable file was fixed. it was messed up by replaced angle brackets by their html counterparts < and >