Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

[Fergus]

Assume your local Cygwin repository is under some /pathname/ for example:
/g/users/yourname/cygfiles/setup.ini AND 
/g/users/yourname/cygfiles/release/*
or you can have spaces if you like:
/h/my name/cygnus solutions/setup.ini AND /h/my name/cygnus 
solutions/release/*

As setup.ini advances with time and you augment the subdirectory 
release/, it becomes bloated with more and more redundant files. It can 
be cleaned out using the following script with the syntax

clean /pathname/

for example

clean /g/users/yourname/cygfiles/     # note leading and trailing /s
or
clean /h/my\ name/cygnus\ solutions/  # note handling of spaces achieved 
eg by Tab-completion

(By the way: the reason the script looks so horrible is entirely because 
it is constructed to cope with the possibility of spaces in the 
repository pathname. If there were guaranteed no spaces, the 
line-by-line syntax would be much easier. But the job the script does is 
very simple.)

This is the script:

#! /bin/sh
#  clean
cat "$1setup.ini" | sed -n '/release\//p' | sed 's/^.*release\///g' |\
sed 's/\( [a-f0-9]*\)*$//g' | sort | uniq                        > setup.1
find "$1release/" -type f | sed -e 's/^.*release\///g' | sort    > setup.2
diff setup.1 setup.2 | grep ">"                                  > setup.3
cat setup.3 | sed -e 's:> :rm -vfr "'"$1"'release\/:g ; s/$/"/g' | bash

If you are nervous about what you might delete you can replace the last 
line with

cat setup.3 | sed -e 's:> :rm -vfr "'"$1"'release\/:g ; s/$/"/g' > setup.4

and then

bash setup.4

when you are happy with what the script does.

Key:
setup.1 lists all the release files referred to in setup.ini, including 
[prev] and *src*
setup.2 lists all the release files in your repository /pathname/
setup.3 identifies those files in your repository not referred to in 
setup.ini
setup.4 is the script that deletes all these unnecessary files

Fergus


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