On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. ;) >
15GB is a nice clean up! I don't think I'd want to run it automatically, at least not often. If it automatically deleted things that work in favor of newly built but untested packages that would defeat the purpose in my mind. As basically nothing but a home user I'm trying after 12 years to piece together some sort of a backup strategy here, including how to do a restore if a drive died, etc. I'll ask some questions about that later, but likely it should be it's own thread. Cheers, Mark - Mark
