thanks you all. will try the eclean out ;)
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Frank Steinmetzger<war...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 1. September 2009 schrieb Xi Shen: >> Hi, >> >> as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old >> packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again >> when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there >> any way, or any tool to help with this task? > > Whenever I do some updates, afterwards I go into my distfiles folder with > krusader, sort by date and select the newly added files. > Then I sort by name again and scroll through the list. Because the new ones > are marked, I can find them easily and see whether there are old versions of > them right next to them. If so, I select the old version. Then I deselect the > old version. And when I'm through the list, I can delete everything that is > still selected. > > This is more thorough than eclean, which by far doesn't find everything. > -- > Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' > *** Quits: TITANIC (Excess Flood) > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
