[arch-general] Another Major glitch now

[Peter Nikolic]

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