On 29/07/11 00:36, Dave Reisner wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 05:39:46PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Dave Reisner<d@falconindy.com> wrote:
cachemoney is a robust and flexible package cache cleaner with a variety of options. Much credit goes to DJ Mills and Pat Brisbin for the ideas behind this script.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner<dreisner@archlinux.org> --- This sort of functionality has been in a few feature requests, and there exist a number of tools that already provide this, but none flexible enough (or portable enough) to be to my liking. This is all bash3 compat with awk, tested on gawk 3.1.8, gawk 4.0.0, bwk (the one true), mawk, and busybox awk (which fscking _sucks_) to do the heavy lifting (rather than bash4). It ends up being insanely fast, with the drawback being that its dependent on the format of the filename to find and consider packages for deletion. In other words, a valid package tarball that isn't compliant with the extglob *.pkg.tar?(.+([^.])) isn't going to be considered.
I'm a fan of the name, but I'm also happy to hear alternatives.
Without having tested it, that script might be something I will use but I don't like the current name. I just don't understand the 'money' part in it. A name like cachecleaner would be more intuitive.
It's mostly just a bad joke[1]. I'll throw out the following alternatives:
I'll add a -1 for the current name too... Bad jokes are usually a bit funny! :P
* slimcache * paccache-clean (more "standard", but too long imo) * cachetrim * pacuum
How about just paccache? A description line about the usage output would be helpful in figuring out what this does too...
NB: We've already got the following packages in the AUR, which I'd like to try and avoid stepping on:
* cacheclean * pacleaner * pkgcacheclean * clearcache
(there may be some that i missed)
Do this script cover all or most of the features of these scripts? I'm sure the maintainers would be "happy" if there is a name conflict if the script we supply covers their functionality.
Any feedback on functionality? Anyone manage to break it?
I can not really test well as I have a somewhat unique cache set-up and my own cache cleaning script (which has the additional feature of always keeping packages that have versions newer than what is in the repos). Allan