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#1 2009-12-16 07:20:40
- graysky
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deleting "older" files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg
I suspect this is more of a bash script question than a pacman question but it's related so here goes: how would one go about deleting older versions of packages (files in general)? I am hesitant to use a date restriction because some packages may be current and just older than the restriction. Perhaps keeping say the latest three versions of any given package might be a good idea. How have folks been doing this if at all?
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#2 2009-12-16 07:39:49
- Allan
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Re: deleting "older" files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg
Pacman has some cache cleaning capabilities (see man pacman.conf). There are also other scripts posted here on the forums.
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#3 2009-12-16 10:32:39
- berbae
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Re: deleting "older" files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg
Personally I keep the current version of packages in the /var/cache/pacman/pkg folder, and I also keep the preceding version in another partition, to be able to downgrade in case of problem with the newer package.
So I always have two versions available.
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#4 2009-12-16 12:27:59
- Dirk Sohler
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Re: deleting "older" files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg
How have folks been doing this if at all?
I'm using schlunix.org
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#5 2010-02-09 21:26:45
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Re: deleting "older" files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg
Pacman has some cache cleaning capabilities (see man pacman.conf). There are also other scripts posted here on the forums.
Anyone using any of the scripts that Allan referred to? I haven't had much luck find any. The behavior I'm looking for is to have pacman clean the /var/cache/pacman/pkg dir keeping two versions of each package (current and one before). I know -Sc will keep current, but I don't know how to go about automating the keeping of one previous version.
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#6 2010-02-09 22:17:49
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Re: deleting "older" files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg
(Wiki to the rescue!)
M*cr*s*ft: Who needs quality when you have marketing?
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#7 2010-02-10 00:24:45
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Re: deleting "older" files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg
Killer, just what I was looking for! Thanks very much for point me to that.
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