On Monday 30 Jan 2012 16:55:03 David C. Rankin wrote:
Also, your package cache is in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. Unless you have done something to remove them, then all your 4.7.4 packages are still there. You can simply do an 'ls -al /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*4.7.4*' to confirm. You can downgrade using 'pacman -U' <file list of 4.7.4 packages>
I wrote a couple of scripts to handle cleaning /var/cache/pacman/pkg and moving old versions off the / partition to the /home partition to keep the space on / free and to keep exact copies of my prior working packages. Currently the previous versions of packages are moved to /home/backup/pkg-1 (then pkg-2 and finally pkg-del)
Grab the scripts at:
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/scripts/fduparch.sh http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/scripts/fduppkg
Just put both in /usr/local/bin and call fduparch.sh as root. The scripts are reasonably commented. fduparch.sh is the wrapper script that just calls fduppkg successively to move old versions of packages to the directories specified in the array 'DIRLIST'.
After each 'pacman -Syu', I just call 'fduparch.sh'. Just run 'fduparch.sh -h' to get a better description. HTH.
Hi David .. Thanks i will look at those scripts this is now a complete new install on a new drive with a somewhat modified capacity for the / partition 10 times expansion in fact but yes i will be keeping an eye on things thats for sure Pete