On Monday 30 Jan 2012 16:55:03 David C. Rankin wrote: > > Also, your package cache is in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. Unless you have > done something to remove them, then all your 4.7.4 packages are still > there. You can simply do an 'ls -al /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*4.7.4*' to > confirm. You can downgrade using 'pacman -U' <file list of 4.7.4 packages> > > I wrote a couple of scripts to handle cleaning /var/cache/pacman/pkg and > moving old versions off the / partition to the /home partition to keep the > space on / free and to keep exact copies of my prior working packages. > Currently the previous versions of packages are moved to /home/backup/pkg-1 > (then pkg-2 and finally pkg-del) > > Grab the scripts at: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/scripts/fduparch.sh > http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/scripts/fduppkg > > Just put both in /usr/local/bin and call fduparch.sh as root. The scripts > are reasonably commented. fduparch.sh is the wrapper script that just calls > fduppkg successively to move old versions of packages to the directories > specified in the array 'DIRLIST'. > > After each 'pacman -Syu', I just call 'fduparch.sh'. Just run > 'fduparch.sh -h' to get a better description. HTH.
Hi David .. Thanks i will look at those scripts this is now a complete new install on a new drive with a somewhat modified capacity for the / partition 10 times expansion in fact but yes i will be keeping an eye on things thats for sure Pete
