I used the following two home-grown scripts in the past few days to clean out ABS- it doesn't do it all, but it does get rid of directories without a PKGBUILD which was the original intent. It should help make an ABS checkout a bit faster as people aren't pulling needless files, although I'm sure there are still many checked in patches that are no longer needed. Arch 64 guys may want to give these a go after a few modifications and see what shows up. -Dan #!/bin/bash # # findstale - find directories in ABS tree without a PKGBUILD # cwd=$(pwd) for dir in $(find -type d); do if [[ "$dir" != *local* ]]; then cd "$cwd" if [ ! -f "$dir/PKGBUILD" ]; then nodir=1; cd "$dir" for node in $(ls); do [ -d "$node" ] && nodir=0 done if [ $nodir -eq 1 ]; then echo "$dir" #for file in $(ls); do # echo " $file" #done #echo fi fi fi done #!/bin/bash # # cleantags - clean up CVS tags in a given directory # cwd=$(pwd) for line in $(cat $1); do cd $cwd/$line ls /var/abs/extra/$line | xargs cvs tag -d CURRENT done