I'm using Gentoo since 10 months and I have already more than 20% of my disk space used for old distfiles: --- localhost ~ # du -sh /usr/portage/distfiles/ 2.7G /usr/portage/distfiles/ localhost ~ # --- Because of a lack of free space, my disk is highly fragmented: ~6% even with ext3 ;) Moreover, a lot of files are aged for more than 200 days: --- localhost ~ # find /usr/portage/distfiles/ -type f -ctime +200 | wc --lines 58 localhost ~ # --- Thus, I added the following cron task: /etc/cron.daily/clean-distfiles --- #! /bin/sh rm -fv $(find /usr/portage/distfiles -type f -mtime +200) --- The issue there is that I don't care of non versatile distfiles files. I saw that bug #10696 shows a script which remove only unused files. I would appreciate a default behavior of the system which saves disk space whenever it is possible. Reproducible: Always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 33877 ***
I'm reopening the bug according to comment <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=33877#c52">comment 52</a> of <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=33877">bug 33877</a>.
For decreasing the additional load, I split the cron task I'm currently using in 2 tasks. /etc/cron.daily/clean-portage.daily --- #! /bin/sh source /etc/make.globals source /etc/make.conf for d in $PKGDIR $DISTDIR ; do if [ -x $d ]; then rm -fv $(find $d -type f -mtime +200) fi done --- /etc/cron.weekly/clean-portage.weekly --- #! /bin/sh eclean -dt 1w packages eclean -dt 1w distfiles ---
Changing summary.
So add it to your crontab and move on, or what's your trouble here? I for one don't want any such cronjob installed by default.
I don't understand why a default zombies files catcher would disturb portage ? It is only a safeguard in order to avoid to have /usr/portage/distfiles growing up to more than 4 GB !
(In reply to comment #6) > It is only a safeguard in order to avoid to have > /usr/portage/distfiles growing up to more than 4 GB ! Simply because it's none of portage business to decide *on behalf* of users how should that directory be managed. Imagine people on dial-up connection (no, not ADSL, plain old dialup) - you know how long does it take to download 4 gigs worth of tarballs for them, which they still might need? `man eclean` already includes a cronjob example, go use it as is or adjust for your needs, you are the system administrator, not portage nor any 'default cronjob' script.
Sorry, but I don't think the portage will use distrib files aged for more than 9 months.
