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noff
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 Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 3:22 am Post subject: Portage Improvement |
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I am not sure where to put this. I think this may warrant a bugzilla request, but I'll ask what is the reasoning. I have FEATURE="buildpkg" in use so I get a package for backup. The only problem is it doesn't overwrite a new version of the old package. This leads to several copies of the same program lying around taking up space. I would really rather only have one copy floating around.
I would like a way to configure whether it
a) keeps all, each major version, or just most recent
b)delete package on unmerge or not
Anyone else try this and find it annoying?
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So you emerge your new app, wiping out the backup of the old app... and your new app doesn't work. But you just overwrote the backup of your old app. Then you'll be unhappy.
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pjp
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Not a portage feature (would be nice), but there are some scripts in this thread that can clean out distfiles and packages directories.
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| charlieg wrote: | So you emerge your new app, wiping out the backup of the old app... and your new app doesn't work. But you just overwrote the backup of your old app. Then you'll be unhappy.
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Good point, but I run stable so it hasn't been to big of a problem. I guess once they switch portage over to a database, you can set your backups to expire. It is just a pain on packages which are updated often, or several quick -r? s.
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