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#1 2009-07-22 11:41:06
- smcsw2000
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Cleaning Pacman Cache
To clean pacman cache I would do a pacman -Sc and that would clean all but the newest packages from the cache. Can I manually remove packages from the cache without messing anything up? Such as are the packages linked to a pacman directory? Going thru the forums I notice that some packages are downgraded and I want to keep older ones that seem to have problems but I want to get rid of packages in between the older package and the newest package. (ie. I had to downgrade wine to 1.1.20 but I also have 1.1.16, 1.1.18, 1.1.23, 1.1.23, 1.1.24, 1.1.25) My cache is 4.7G and I want to clean it up some.
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#2 2009-07-22 11:44:26
- sand_man
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Re: Cleaning Pacman Cache
As I as I know, you can delete them manually.
When you go to upgrade or downgrade, pacman checks the cache whether it is in there or not. Packages in the cache are not stored in any database.
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#3 2009-07-22 11:45:10
- Allan
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#4 2009-07-22 11:48:02
- Procyon
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Re: Cleaning Pacman Cache
I recommend making a directory with useful packages.
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#5 2009-07-22 12:19:16
- shining
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Re: Cleaning Pacman Cache
To clean pacman cache I would do a pacman -Sc and that would clean all but the newest packages from the cache. Can I manually remove packages from the cache without messing anything up? Such as are the packages linked to a pacman directory? Going thru the forums I notice that some packages are downgraded and I want to keep older ones that seem to have problems but I want to get rid of packages in between the older package and the newest package. (ie. I had to downgrade wine to 1.1.20 but I also have 1.1.16, 1.1.18, 1.1.23, 1.1.23, 1.1.24, 1.1.25) My cache is 4.7G and I want to clean it up some.
Taking your wine example, pacman -Sc will only keep the installed 1.1.20 and remove all the others.
If you put CleanMethod = KeepCurrent, it will only keep 1.1.25 (if this is indeed the current version in the database) and remove all the others.
None of these options is ok?
pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))
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#6 2009-07-22 21:15:18
- smcsw2000
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Re: Cleaning Pacman Cache
shining wrote:
Taking your wine example, pacman -Sc will only keep the installed 1.1.20 and remove all the others.
If you put CleanMethod = KeepCurrent, it will only keep 1.1.25 (if this is indeed the current version in the database) and remove all the others.
None of these options is ok?
I do not want to clean up all but the current packages or the ones currently in use. I want to check the forums and see if anyone is having problems with any files/programs that I use and keep the packages that they roll back to and the current ones but get rid of everything in between.
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