On Saturday 05 January 2008, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:01:44 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent eclean from removing > > a distfile for an installed package. Seems like that should be > > default behavior. > > From the eclean manpage: > > If you use the --destructive option, eclean will only protect files > corresponding to some currently installed package (taking their > exact version into account).
He'd be better off using /etc/eclean/packages.exclude, described in the EXCLSUION FILES section of man eclean. eclean's default behaviour is to retain distfiles for installed packages *that are in the portage tree*. The file Grant wants to protect is not in the portage tree anymore -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
