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  • From: Derek Moyes <sorcerer AT flamesnyper.com>
  • To: Robin <robin AT kallisti.2y.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Removing aged cache and spool files
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:50:12 -0500

We'd need some way of _not_ deleting any currently installed packages, no
matter
how old they are, though.

Quoting Robin <robin AT kallisti.2y.net>:

> I'm wondering if it may not be a bad idea to (optionally of course)
> remove files that are older than a certain time, say 128 days, from
> /var/spool/sorcery and /var/cache/sorcery. This could end up saving a
> good bit of space whilst ideally not causing anything to break.
> Perhaps this could be done on a system-update, with a simple
> "find $dir -mtime +180".
>
> Is there a reason not to do this? (I just had a glance at mine, and I
> think it would save a fair bit of space)
>
> --
> Robin <robin AT kallisti.2y.net> JabberID:
> <eythian AT jabber.org>


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