netbsd-help: Re: Maintaining distfiles?

Subject: Re: Maintaining distfiles?
To: Richard Rauch <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/21/2000 16:24:08

use lintpkgsrc. It can look for 'orphaned' distfiles. lintpkgsrc is part
of pkgtools/pkglint
-Dan
On 2000年12月21日, Richard Rauch wrote:
> (I wasn't sure if this should go to netbsd-help, or tech-pkg; I opted for
> the former...also, since I read these lists via the web-page, please
> CC: replies to me.)
> 
> Is there something that I'm missing about maintaining distfiles? In
> particular, I want to remove distfiles that are no longer referenced. 
> (Most commonly, this happens when pkgsrc is updated and a new version of
> the distfile is called for, of course.)
> 
> I can think of a few somewhat-clunky ways. Is there a clean way that I've
> missed? The clunky ways are:
> 
> * Delete all distfiles periodically. This might be acceptable if I had
> a faster Internet connection.
> 
> * Just let them accumulate.
> 
> * Do a ``touch time-stamp'', then ``make checksum'' on all packages and
> remove the unreferenced. The problem here is that it brings _all_
> pkgsrc distfiles onto my computer. In the past, this hasn't been too
> bad, since I already installed most of the big ones that I was aware
> of (EMACS, XEmacs, GNOME, KDE, the GIMP, ...). However, it looks like
> (in addition to many smaller packages, as pkgsrc has grown) we now have
> a new champion for space-hogging: Crafty. I don't intend on installing
> Crafty, and from the sound of it, at least one of its compressed data
> files is going to top 6GB. That's a lot of data to download and keep
> around just for the privilege of deleting old distfiles.
> 
> * Throw hardware at the problem (get a faster link) and go back to
> the first solution. (^&
> 
> 
> Is there a better way to do this? I've never snaked through the pkgsrc
> Makefiles, since they didn't look too inviting; what kind of trouble would
> I be letting myself in for if I tried to add some kind of ``make
> prunedistfiles'', or some such?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions/help.
> 
> 
> "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu
>