Bug 112674

Summary:	refer to app-admin/tmpwatch instead of (in addition to) user-made scripts for DISTDIR/PORTAGE_TMPDIR cleanup
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Jakub Moc (RETIRED) <jakub>
Component:	Gentoo Linux FAQ	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#doc_chap4
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-16 00:05:43 UTC

app-admin/tmpwatch installs a nice cronjob which can take care of cleaning the
old cruft in DISTDIR/PORTAGE_TMPDIR based on atime/mtime. I think it would be be
preferrable to refer to something that is actually maintained in portage instead
of relying on third-party scripts posted in forums.g.o. only.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-16 06:21:54 UTC

Does app-admin/tmpwatch offer an easy way to allow removal of obsoleted versions
of packages while preserving "current" file? What about stuff that got installed
two weeks ago and unmerged two hours later?

IMHO tmpwatch does another job as it isn't integrated with Portage. It is not
aware of files which could be used if you have to rebuild some package (USE
flags change, revision bump,...)

Feel free to reopen.