On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 01:52 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > Brian Dolbec wrote: > > > > remove entries in profiles/updates for tree-cleaned packages... > > > > > > What's the advantage of doing that? > > > > None > .. > > FYI... Currently there are updates files in profiles/updates/ > > dating back to 2004 > > Do they take up significant storage space or transfer time, compared > to the rest of the tree? > > If not, I can't think of a reason to remove them. > > > //Peter
No, once they are downloaded, they don't change ever after the quarterly rollover which starts a new updates file. Nor do they take up significant storage space. They probably take up a higher percentage of your fs's inodes than % diskspace. But they do take time to process and verify every time emerge initiates a fixpackages call after every sync. That will save time more than it will space. Also, (taking it a bit to extremes ;) ) why would a new user with a 2 month old system and up-to-date tree want 8 year old update cruft lingering about their filesystem...taking time to check they've been processed? Do you? Let's just do an annual tree-cleaning and be done with them. -- Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org>
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