repo-add => remove existing old version package on disk?

fukawi2 · 2013-03-28 03:45:14

So how do others handle this when maintaining custom repos?

This command:

repo-add custom.db.tar.gz foobar-2.0-1.pkg.tar.xz

Will add the package foobar-2.0-1 to the repo DB, removing any existing entries for "foobar" in the DB (eg, foobar-1.0.1), but the actual old on-disk package is not removed.

I can't use the package name and do `rm foobar-*.pkg.tar.xz` since that will also wipe out (for example) foobar-libs-2.0-1.pkg.tar.gz.

And trying to do it with a more specific rm wildcard such as foobar-*.*-*.pkg.tar.xz isn't generic enough to deal with packages like blahblah-5.14.9-1.pkg.tar.xz (with 3 parts to the version rather than 2)

Allan · 2013-03-28 04:13:58

I manually do it - the Arch repos have automatic clean up tools (see the dbscripts project).

A config flag could be useful to add to repo-add. Add a feature request.

fukawi2 · 2013-03-28 04:16:41

Thx Allan. I'll have a look at dbscripts.

I was pondering hacking it in myself (repo-(add|remove) are just bash scripts afterall) but I don't understand the delta stuff enough to do that

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#1 2013-03-28 03:45:14

repo-add => remove existing old version package on disk?

#2 2013-03-28 04:13:58

Re: repo-add => remove existing old version package on disk?

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Re: repo-add => remove existing old version package on disk?

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