Re: [Fink-users] Pruning my installation of old Debs...

[Viktor H. <vh...@ri...>]

Alexander Hansen writes:
 > I thought that "fink cleanup" will purge older versions of deb
 > files (keeping the most recent).

Thanks, Alex and Matthias -- I didn't know about this command. I
will use it, and with some caution.

 > On 5/15/03 9:53 AM, "Viktor Haag" <vh...@ri...> wrote:
 > 
 > > I use Fink with the unstable tree. Is there a way that I can
 > > prune my installation of old Debs (more precisely, ones that
 > > have since been upgraded with newer built debs)? I'm happy
 > > to keep the info and patch files around, but frankly,
 > > keeping the debs around is a bit wearing on diskspace and
 > > has recently bumped me over the "personal backup fits all on
 > > one DVD" limit....
 > > 
 > > (I'm wondering if there's a way that Fink itself can perform
 > > this sort of pruning maintenance: I know that I could just
 > > "write a shell script to do it" or the like, but I'd rather
 > > not go ripping out stuff from my Fink installation without
 > > Fink itself "knowing about it".)


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Viktor