On 06/18/2020 02:03 AM, Andy Pieters wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 07:51, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
annoying to use search with 'grep'. However, since the file is that small and the complete history could become important, I don't remove it.
Same here, I made some awk scripts to format it but I will never ever delete it. Why would you want to delete a log of what packages were installed and removed?
Thanks Ralf, Andy, I didn't go looking to delete or remove anything. I went to fix grep reporting pacman.log as binary data due to the html/UTF-8 '→' that was written to the log numerous time during the late 2017 - 2018 timeframe. After fixing the log, then I wondered if there was anything I should do with it since it went back to 7 years. Storage isn't an issue: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 50G 23G 27G 47% / tmpfs 16G 4.0K 16G 1% /tmp /dev/md0 469M 106M 351M 24% /boot /dev/md2 865G 510G 355G 59% /home /dev/md4 2.7T 945G 1.8T 35% /home/data So for know -- we will just do nothing with it. If push came to shove either writing a quick wrapper to pacman to xz unzip/zip or splitting it by year, or some other sane criteria may be an option. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.