[pacman-dev] issues with cleaning a shared pacman cache with new -Sc behaviour

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 07:49:24 EST 2008


2008/1/19, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml at gmail.com>:
> On Sat 2008-01-19 09:43 , Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've found an issue that appeared after the change in -Sc behaviour.
> > It now removes "uninstalled" packages from cache which is good for
> > majority of users, but is bad for shared pacman cache users.
> > With a pacman cache shared between machines it is impossible to
> > correctly clean it with pacman if a set of installed packages on them
> > is different.
> > I remember there was at least one script posted here or on forums that
> > removes old version of packages from a specified directory
> > (it was provided as a helpful tool for managing local repositories
> > AFAIR), but I cannot find it.
> > Could someone who have this (or similar) script please share it?
> > It needs to be posted to our wiki page about a shared cache, and maybe
> > Phil's rucksack script needs to be modified as well.
>
> This one
> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-March/007767.html
> maybe?
>

2008/1/19, fancris3 <fancris3 at aol.com>:
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=29555  ?

Thank you guys! :-)
Will try both today.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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