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andy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2002-10-11

Posts: 374

cleaning the cache

Hi,
while trying to build a i586 base distribution I ran into the following problem :
makewold  filled the file system. And makeworld -c did not clean the cache in
/var/cache/src. I did not reralize it until I tried a new run and the system was telling me
"using local source file" or the like. The problem however : the local source files
were all of zero size. At least the ones that makepkg tried to download after the
file system filled up.

I hope that was somewhat clear .... anyways : there should be a way to clean
/var/cache/src .... pacman -Sc did not do it and makeworld -c did not do it. Am I
missing something ?

Also, when using the local source, there should be some sanity checking.

Cheers
Andreas

apeiro

Daddy

From: Victoria, BC, Canada

Registered: 2002-08-12

Posts: 771

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Re: cleaning the cache

No, you're correct, there's no way to clean out /var/cache/pacman/src except with the ol' rm command.

I'll add something for the next pacman release.