Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2013-01-11 Thread Zac Medico
On 01/11/2013 01:10 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 17:05 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > >> This command seems to do the trick: >> >> $ ls -1 /usr/portage/profiles/updates/ | grep -Ev '(08|09|10|11|12|13)$' >> 1Q-2004 >> 1Q-2005 >> 1Q-2006 >> 1Q-2007 >> 2Q-2004 >> 2Q-2005 >> 2Q-2006 >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2013-01-11 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 17:05 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > This command seems to do the trick: > > $ ls -1 /usr/portage/profiles/updates/ | grep -Ev '(08|09|10|11|12|13)$' > 1Q-2004 > 1Q-2005 > 1Q-2006 > 1Q-2007 > 2Q-2004 > 2Q-2005 > 2Q-2006 > 2Q-2007 > 3Q-2004 > 3Q-2005 > 3Q-2006 > 3Q-2007 > 4Q-2004

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2013-01-02 Thread Zac Medico
On 01/02/2013 02:46 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 08:59 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: >> >>> gentoo-x86/profiles/updates $ LANG=C ls -1 --sort=time >>> [long list omitted] >> >>> old entries are done in different context (compa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2013-01-02 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 08:59 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > > gentoo-x86/profiles/updates $ LANG=C ls -1 --sort=time > > [long list omitted] > > > old entries are done in different context (comparing to 2012): > > > - some packages change n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-10 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On 12/10/2012 12:10 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: >> I propose that we say, once a year, schedule a tree-cleaning of old >> updates files. These updates files could be added to a tarball made >> available for download. That way if they are needed to update a system >> older than what the main t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-10 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > gentoo-x86/profiles/updates $ LANG=C ls -1 --sort=time > [long list omitted] > old entries are done in different context (comparing to 2012): > - some packages change names 2 or 3 times > - slots have different meaning > moreover: > - if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-09 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/09/2012 09:15 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > 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. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-09 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:15:37 -0800 Brian Dolbec wrote: > No, once they are downloaded, they don't change ever after the quarterly > rollover which starts a new updates file. gentoo-x86/profiles/updates $ LANG=C ls -1 --sort=time 4Q-2012 3Q-2012 1Q-2008 2Q-2012 4Q-2011 1Q-2012 3Q-2011 2Q-2011 1Q

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-09 Thread Brian Dolbec
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 t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-09 Thread Peter Stuge
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, comp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-09 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 15:10 -0800, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 12/9/12 1:17 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > Starting from a question by Markos in #gentoo-portage about whether to > > remove entries in profiles/updates for tree-cleaned packages... > > What's the advantage of doing that? None, it a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

2012-12-09 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 12/9/12 1:17 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > Starting from a question by Markos in #gentoo-portage about whether to > remove entries in profiles/updates for tree-cleaned packages... What's the advantage of doing that? > I propose that we say, once a year, schedule a tree-cleaning of old > updates fi