Subject: Re: Cleaning up older binaries
To: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
From: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
List: pkgsrc-bulk
Date: 08/31/2004 20:09:54
>> How does one clean up a set of binaries of older / insecure packages? As
>> things are updated on pkgsrc-2004Q2, I'd like to get rid of some of the
>> older things, and I'd rather not upload insecure packages and wait for
>> them to be cleaned out on the ftp server.
>
> Maybe do an 'upload' to a temporary directory and then rsync --delete
> that dir with your pkgs dir. (Not tested.)
I mean this for my local directories. VAX and m68k bulk builds take a long
time, so I don't want to start clean each time. So I keep the previous set
of binaries. I'd just like to remove older versions of the same package,
like:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 103722 Mar 26 07:52 anomy-sanitizer-1.63.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 105178 May 26 22:10 anomy-sanitizer-1.66.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 107962 Jul 10 21:18 anomy-sanitizer-1.68.tgz
or
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1521073 May 24 06:45 apache-1.3.29nb1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1538683 Jul 9 19:38 apache-1.3.31nb1.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1538670 Aug 31 14:37 apache-1.3.31nb2.tgz
While I could write a script to do this, I just thought that lintpkgsrc or
some other neat utility already does this.
John