[pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/3] Allow cache cleaning to process all cache directories

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 10:49:29 EDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Previously we only looked at the first cache directory returned by the
> library. This allows us to look at all cache directories for cleaning.
>
> In addition, change the way we do a full (-Scc) cache cleaning operation.
> Instead of removing the parent directory, remove each package one-by-one as
> in the -Sc case. This would be ideal for someone mounting a cache directory
> over NFS, as it ensures we don't wipe out the mountpoint from underneath the
> directory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
> ---
>
> Of the three patches, this is the least tested, aka I've never ran this on a
> machine of mine yet. Please let me know if you are daring enough and try either
> an -Sc or -Scc, and whether you had multiple cache directories configured.
> Thanks!
>

Well it looks fine.

And I tested it on my box, with one and two cache directories, and a
bunch of packages. -Sc and -Scc worked fine.
So signoff :)


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