Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:59:19PM -0600, Keith Christian wrote:
>Has anyone written a script that will remove older .bz2 files in the
>release/ directory on local drives, e.g.
>
>	release/bash/bash-3.2.25-17.tar.bz2
>	release/bash/bash-3.2.33-18.tar.bz2
>	release/bash/bash-3.2.39-19.tar.bz2
>	release/bash/bash-3.2.39-20.tar.bz2
>	release/bash/bash-3.2.48-21.tar.bz2
>
>Perhaps delete:
>
>	bash-3.2.25-17
>	bash-3.2.33-18
>	bash-3.2.39-19
>
>and keeping the two most recent updates.

You can just rm -r all of the directories that setup creates when
installing packages.  There is no reason to keep any of them around.

cgf

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