Re: Yet Another Cleaner - v3 (yacleaner-0.3) UPDATED AGAIN!

brot · Guru Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 322

cleared more than 2 GB
thank you. yac is a tool that does exactly what it should. And does that well.
I like it very much

Xgates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 82

tacvbo nice work trying to help, but when something like this comes along it goes to show that the people running their boxes don't even know basics commands or how to clean up and do basic system cleanup.

I mean really does anyone know what these commands do:

updatedb
locate
rm -rf

and then applying them all to work and know how to do things by hand that are more proper for getting a better grasp on how to handle your system.

Again it's nice to have tired to bring something to the community but when its as simple as this all it has done is made the user more ignorant to simple tasks they should know by CLI.

This is Linux people learn how to use that ---> CLI :-)

Smoothhound · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 149

WonderClown · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 22

I discovered a VERY serious bug in yacleaner-0.2. If you run it twice in succession, so that on the second run there is nothing to delete, it wipes out everything in /bin. Actually, I suspect it tries to wipe out everything in /, and /bin is first, and the rest of the deletes fail because then /bin/rm is gone. You can test this bug if you like, but I suggest doing it in a chroot installation, or keep a backup of /bin and a boot CD handy.

This seems to be fixed in yacleaner-0.3, but yacleaner-0.2 is still up in the repository, and http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/show/70 still links to 0.2. (That's a script repository, which is how I found yacleaner. I suspect others are finding it in the same way.) I suggest that you either backport a fix to 0.2 or take it off the repository, or at least add a warning!

tacvbo · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: México City

tacvbo · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: México City

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ferrarif5 · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

Brilliant script tacvbo, regained 3gig worth of space.. This tool (or one like it) definately needs to be added to the gentoolkit for sure..

Thanks again!!
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jarealist · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 228

I've noticed that after removing packages there are usually multiple log files cleaned depending I guess on the number of times the "older version" package had been previously installed. Does it make sense to also remove all but the most recent log file for each package currently installed? If all that is needed is the log of the most recent install, then the log files could be trimmed quite a bit more. Great script by the way! Thanks!

M@rijn · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:54 am Post subject:

Hmm.. Tryed the 0.3 version and i get rid of this error:

./yacleaner.sh
./yacleaner.sh: line 1: !/bin/bash: No such file or directory
./yacleaner.sh: line 312: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
./yacleaner.sh: line 312: ` echo eval rm -rf \"`eval_this portage ${1}` files\" >> '

Trying the 0.4alpha and i get this one on screen

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yacleaner-0.4.1alpha.sh: line 25: rather: command not found
yacleaner-0.4.1alpha.sh: line 29: ;: command not found
yacleaner-0.4.1alpha.sh: line 32: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
yacleaner-0.4.1alpha.sh: line 32: `all-mirror >'

Help

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tacvbo · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: México City

DarkMind · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:19 am Post subject:

very good

v3rtigo · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 179

nice:D

but it's quite slow till it gets all the things, probably faster just remove the things you don't need manualy

whitesouls · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:

Sir, keep up the good work. Your script is one heck of a script I'd love the most when i clean my laptop files and do and update.. KEEP UP THE HARD WORK..
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gwolf · Guru Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 374 Location: Estonia

Hello! I am using yacleaner version 0.4.1alpha and faced a somewhat strange situation:

Look at the firefox-related entries:

v3rtigo · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 179

It doesn't remove firefox, it only removes the files in /usr/portage/distfiles/

gwolf · Guru Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 374 Location: Estonia

mani74 · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 49

Thanks for you app. There seems to be another bug in yacleaner-0.3

My $PKGDIR is set to /usr/portage/distfiles and of course the binaries are in /usr/portage/distfiles/All

When doing a

tacvbo · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: México City

tacvbo · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: México City

gwolf · Guru Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 374 Location: Estonia

M@rijn · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:26 pm Post subject:

dzho002 · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 43

Nice stuff.
I have a situation here:
I ran the script,

tacvbo · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: México City