On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Are there any tools that will: >> >> 1) Ensure that for every installed packages there is a corresponding >> tbz2 file in /usr/portage/packages? >> >> 2) Remove any older versions in /usr/portage/packages prior to me >> running a backup? > > > I think app-portage/gentoolkit can help with its "eclean" tool > (specifically, "eclean-pkg"). > > "man eclean" should get you started.
And as an example of savings... I run eclean once in a while, but not automated. I just ran it and got these results: [ 14.8 G ] Total space from 1673 files were freed in the distfiles directory I guess I should use it more frequently. ;)
