On 2006-04-03 at 17:06:00 +0200,
Regarding "[Fink-users] Removing of .deb files of /sw tree,"
Martial Bret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> in order to gain space, I removed /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb,
> but I would like to check whether it's safe or not for fink
> architecture and whether does exist a special fink command doing the
> same work.
[ ... ]
> More over, I would like to know whether it's possible to remove *.deb
> files contained in the following directories (I'm under Mac OS X.
> 4.5), and how to do that :
AFAICT, .deb files just take up space once things are installed.
Keeping them around will make subsequent installs faster, though,
because you won't have to rebuild or download them. (You may find
yourself removing and re-installing packages for various reasons.)
That said, I've been purging my system of .debs for months and not had
any ill effects (beyond having to do a lot of rebuilds of gettext!).
As root, or using sudo:
/sw/bin/find /sw/fink /sw/var -name '*.deb' | /sw/bin/xargs --verbose
--no-run-if-empty /bin/rm --
Or wrap that all up in a script somewhere and just run it every once in
a while.
Also, I'm pretty sure you can remove the *entire* /sw/fink/10.3 tree if
you're running 10.4; I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
HTH,
Dan
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