eclean-dist does not work for me. Here's my distfiles: wolverine ~ # ls -lutr /usr/portage/distfiles/ total 231899 drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 48 Jan 8 00:04 .locks/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 7234 Jan 9 09:01 svgalib_helper-1.9.17-mplayer.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 234242 Jan 9 09:01 font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 222208 Jan 9 09:01 font-arial-iso-8859-2.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 249705 Jan 9 09:01 font-arial-cp1250.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 1204 Jan 12 12:47 searchcomplete-1.1.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 15426 Jan 12 12:49 minibufexpl-6.3.2.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 4476 Jan 12 13:13 cecutil-7.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 26726 Jan 12 13:13 align-32.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 6021 Jan 12 13:13 autoalign-5.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 15884 Jan 13 02:25 memtester-4.0.3.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 232172 Jan 13 11:15 psmisc-21.9.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 38938 Jan 14 16:58 gnuconfig-20051223.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 141596 Jan 14 17:00 DateManip-5.44.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 54162 Jan 15 17:06 cdb-0.75.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 18985 Jan 15 17:06 python-cdb-0.32.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 99009 Jan 17 15:50 sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 4139 Jan 17 15:50 sysvinit-2.86-kexec.patch -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 39172170 Jan 17 16:02 linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 8725221 Jan 17 16:02 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 82962 Jan 17 22:08 gentoolkit-0.2.1.tar.gz drwxrws--- 2 root portage 48 Jan 17 22:08 cvs-src/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 376924 Jan 19 15:29 cdrecord-prodvd-2.01.01-i686-pc-linux-gnu -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 346848 Jan 19 15:36 cdrecord-prodvd-2.01.01b03-i686-pc-linux-gnu -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 159580 Jan 19 17:15 rc-scripts-1.6.14.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 19738 Jan 19 17:16 genlop-0.30.5.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 31953 Jan 19 17:16 logrotate-3.7.1.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 234784 Jan 21 02:16 portage-2.0.54.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 16877867 Jan 21 02:18 kdelibs-3.4.3.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 345525 Jan 21 02:50 libol-0.3.17.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 2238224 Jan 21 23:17 BitTorrent-4.2.2.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 969993 Jan 21 23:18 pkg-config-0.20.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 3418784 Jan 21 23:19 libxml2-2.6.23.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 2593263 Jan 21 23:23 glib-2.8.5.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 222080 Jan 21 23:24 udev-079.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 14016570 Jan 21 23:25 gimp-2.2.8.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 39832836 Jan 23 05:06 linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 175417 Jan 23 05:06 genpatches-2.6.15-3.extras.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 16532 Jan 23 05:06 genpatches-2.6.15-3.base.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 765341 Jan 23 05:07 syslog-ng-1.6.9.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 142535 Jan 23 07:30 genpatches-2.6.14-6.extras.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 43416 Jan 23 07:30 genpatches-2.6.14-6.base.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 12004641 Jan 23 17:19 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 1370907 Jan 25 06:00 util-linux-2.12r.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 167804 Jan 25 06:00 loop-AES-v3.1b.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 4270776 Jan 25 06:01 coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 66693 Jan 25 06:01 coreutils-5.2.1-patches-1.0.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 11745933 Jan 25 06:04 tetex-src-2.0.2.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 52424280 Jan 25 06:05 tetex-texmf-2.0.2.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 22909537 Jan 25 06:05 tetex-texmfsrc-2.0.2.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 1704 Jan 25 06:05 tetex-2.0.2-gentoo.tar.gz Now, I enter the command: wolverine ~ # eclean-dist -p -t1h * Building file list for distfiles cleaning... * Your distfiles directory was already clean. wolverine ~ # My emerge --info: Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib cdr crypt curl dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac fortran gif glut gmp gpm idn imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lcms libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses network nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline rtc sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I need more information. What packages are not installed that still have files in your distfiles directory? The command that you gave tells eclean to not delete any files that are less than 1 hour old and to delete any files that do not belong to any installed packages. The purpose of eclean is to clean up files that don't belong to an installed package. eclean by default does not delete files in the distfiles directory that belong to any version of an installed package. If you specify the --destructive (-d) switch it will only keep the files for the installed version of the package. If you desire to delete all files just based by age, you are better off emerging app-admin/tmpwatch and running something like: tmpwatch --atime --mtime --ctime --verbose 168 /usr/portage/distfiles
Duh, purely my misunderstanding of the man page.
