Subject: Re: cleaning out old distributions
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: What EES eet man? <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/03/1999 15:05:19
find -newer comes to mind if you can keep a file (.keep_me?) from being
updated...
Hubert Feyrer sez:
/*
*
* On 3 Mar 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
* > I'd like some sort of way to generate a list of all the distribution
* > files that are associated with any package so that I can remove any
* > file NOT on the list from my local distrib/. Its gotten too hard to
* > try to clean it out by hand.
* >
* > Opinions?
*
* You can't only rm the files not (no more) associated with pkgsrc-current,
* but you also need to keep them back to (at least) the pkgsrc from the
* last release. No idea how to do that - maybe "find -mtime" or so.
*
*
* - Hubert
*
* --
* Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
*
*/
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