[sbopkg-users] Obsolete Packages

[alkos333]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:36 PM, slakmagik <jsunx1 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 2009-03-04 (Wed) 12:11:07 [-0600], alkos333 wrote:
>> How about an "Obsolete Package" function in Utilities  menu that would
>> do the following:
>>
>> for pkg in $OUTPUT/*.tgz
>>     do
>>             if [ ! -f /var/log/packages/${pkg%.tgz} ]; then
>>                     rm $pkg
>>             fi
>>     done
>>
>>
>> The it's very useful for system porting when somebody just wants to
>> reinstall the exact collection of packages without having to recompile
>> all of them on the newly ported system, using the queue.  This way,
>> you just eliminate obsolete packages on the model system, back them
>> up, and then run something like this on the new system:
>>
>> installpkg $OUTPUT/*.tgz
>
> The above would need to be something like
>
> for pkg in /home/slackbuilds/pkgs/*.tgz; do
>    pkgfile=${pkg##*/}
>    if [ ! -f /var/log/packages/${pkgfile%.tgz} ]; then
>        rm $pkg
>    fi
> done
>
> to do the path substitution as well as extension removal.
>
> We'd been batting around ideas for something similar, but I don't think
> we hit upon this particular thing. Mauro may want to jump in as he had
> done some work here.
>
> There shouldn't be any features in this release cycle but, for
> version-after-next, we'll see. Thanks very much for the suggestion.
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I don't see the point of hardcoding the search path and the defining pkgfile

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