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Is there a way of partially clearing the cache of old packages. I'll explain, every now and then I have to downgrade a package, due to some sort of issue, (usually wine or ati packages). Down grading to the previous version is usually good enough, but sometimes I need to go back further. So that I can do this I don't clear the cache to frequently.
Now I know that doing a "pacman -Sc" will remove all the old packages upto the currently installed one, and a "pacman -Scc" removes everything. But it would be nice (for me anyway) if you could add a parameter to the "c" to leave that many versions of a package in the cache
example "pacman -Sc=3" this would leave the 3 latest versions of packages alone, but clear out anything older. If there wasn't 3 versions of a package, in the cache, then it would be left alone.
People could keep the number of copies that they feel comfortable with, or not specify a number and things would work as they currently do.
Does anyone know of a way to do a partial clearing alongs the lines discribed?
Thanks
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you could always go into /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ and delete the packages you don't need.
posting your suggestion to the bugzilla might yield better chances of it being implemented as a feature.
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you could always go into /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ and delete the packages you don't need.
posting your suggestion to the bugzilla might yield better chances of it being implemented as a feature.
Thanks for the input, I was just asking to see if anyone new of a way to achieve this currently, and also to see if it other thought it would be useful.
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