I've just run eclean-dist without any arguments on a system with freshly synced portage tree. Still, after cleaning, I found several files without matching ebuilds, e.g.: thunderbird-1.5.0.4-source.tar.bz2 thunderbird-1.5.0.5-source.tar.bz2 thunderbird-1.5.0.7-source.tar.bz2 mozilla-1.7.12-source.tar.bz2 and probably many many more. How come these old sources are still around after cleaning? How can I help finding out what's going on? I believe I encountered similar problems the other day when using the -d flag. But I've been impatient then and simply wiped out all distfiles, so I don't have any details from that.
Created attachment 108080 [details, diff] Add debug statements to eclean This patch adds debug statements to eclean. The easiest way to use it is to do the following (Assuming that you save attachment as /tmp/eclean.debug.patch): cd <some temporary directory> cp /usr/bin/eclean . patch < /tmp/eclean.debug.patch ./eclean <Your normal eclean options> distfiles 2>eclean.out sort -u eclean.out -o eclean.out The output will contain a list of all distfiles that are being kept preceded by a reason. The reasons are: Time - You used the -t option and the file meets the criteria Size - You used the -s option and the file meets the criteria Exclusion - The file is listed in /etc/eclean/distfiles.exclude category/package - The file is owned by the indicated package
(In reply to comment #1) OK, I tried your patch, and found that for all my suspicions there was a valid reason why things should stay around that I hadn't thought of before. For the mentioned files that was enigmail and gecko-sdk using older mozilla sources. For many others it was exotic kernels and stuff like that. Sorry for the noise, and thank's for the patch! I guess I'll keep that around anyway, in might be useful for manual cleaning. I could even imagine an interactive feature combining for each source file the list of ebuilds that would use it, along with the eix output for each, to see what versions there are of that, which are installed, and so on. Just a thought, but I guess if there was such a thing I might use it. Maybe I really should get started learning python...
