On Wed 26 Jan 2011 20:36 -0500, Dave Reisner wrote: > So, on the subject of cleanup, I've come across a list of 530 packages > on sigurd that aren't accessible from the web interface. Judging from > some of the names, I'd wager that these are packages which were deleted > but something went wrong, etc etc. In total, it's about 20mb of space > that would be freed. Any reason these shouldn't just be purged by > someone with root privs?
Packages that are deleted from the web interface aren't automatically deleted from the filesystem. I run a clean up script periodically to get rid of them. I figure, it gives a little window for people to recover from deletion if needed.