#!/usr/bin/env python """cache_clean - a simple python script to clean up the /var/cache/pacman/pkg directory. More versatile than 'pacman -Sc' in that you can select how many old versions to keep. Usage: cache_clean {-p} {-v} <# of copies to keep> # of copies to keep - (required) how many generations of each package to keep -p - (optional) preview what would be deleted; forces verbose (-v) mode. -v - (optional) show deleted packages.""" # Note that the determination of package age is done by simply looking at the date-time # modified stamp on the file. There is just enough variation in the way package version # is done that I thought this would be simpler & just as good. # Also note that you must be root to run this script. import getopt import os import re import sys # helper function to get tuple of (file dtm, file name, file sz) def fn_stats(fn): s = os.stat(fn) return (s[8], fn, s[6]) # cleanup does the actual pkg file deletion def cleanup(run_list): # strictly speaking only the first two of these globals need to be listed. global n_deleted, bytes_deleted, opt_verbose, opt_preview, n_to_keep # return if the run_list is too short #print run_list #return if len(run_list) <= n_to_keep: return # Build list of tuples (date-time file modified, file name, file size) dtm_list = [fn_stats(tfn) for tfn in run_list] # Sort the list by date-time dtm_list.sort() # Build list of the filenames to delete (all but last n_to_keep). # #kill_list = [tfn[1] for tfn in dtm_list[:-n_to_keep]] #bytes_deleted = sum(x[2] for x in dtm_list[:-n_to_keep]) # kill_list = [] for x in dtm_list[:-n_to_keep]: kill_list.append(x[1]) bytes_deleted += x[2] if opt_verbose: print (kill_list) n_deleted += len(kill_list) # and finally delete (if not in preview mode) if not opt_preview: for dfn in kill_list: os.unlink(dfn) ###################################################################### # mainline processing # process command line options try: opts, pargs = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'vp') opt_dict = dict(opts) opt_preview = '-p' in opt_dict opt_verbose = '-v' in opt_dict if opt_preview: opt_verbose = True if len(pargs) == 1: n_to_keep = pargs[0] else: raise getopt.GetoptError("missing required argument.") try: n_to_keep = int(n_to_keep) if n_to_keep <= 0: raise ValueError except ValueError as e: raise getopt.GetoptError("# of copies to keep must be numeric > 0!") except getopt.GetoptError as msg: print ("Error:",msg,"\n",__doc__) sys.exit(1) # change to the pkg directory & get a sorted list of its contents os.chdir('/var/cache/pacman/pkg') pkg_fns = os.listdir('.') pkg_fns.sort() # Pattern to use to extract the package name from the tar file name: # for pkg e.g. 'gnome-common-2.8.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' group(1) is 'gnome-common'. bpat = re.compile(r'^(.+)-\d[^-]+-.+?(-i686|-x86_64|-any)?\.pkg\.tar\.(gz|bz2|xz)(\.aria2)?$') n_deleted = 0 bytes_deleted = 0 pkg_base_nm = '' # now look for "runs" of the same package name differing only in version info. for run_end in range(len(pkg_fns)): fn = pkg_fns[run_end] # make sure we skip directories if os.path.isdir(fn) == False: mo = bpat.match(fn) # test for a match of the package name pattern if mo: #print >>sys.stdout, "Processing file '" + fn + "'", mo.lastindex tbase = mo.group(1) # gets the 'base' package name # include the architecture in the name if it's present if mo.lastindex > 1: if mo.group(2) is not None: tbase += mo.group(2) #print 'tbase: ',tbase,' ',mo.lastindex # is it a new base name, i.e. the start of a new run? if tbase != pkg_base_nm: # if so then process the prior run if pkg_base_nm != '': cleanup(pkg_fns[run_start:run_end]) pkg_base_nm = tbase # & setup for the new run run_start = run_end else: print ("File '"+fn+"' doesn't match package pattern!", file=sys.stderr) else: print >>sys.stdout, "skipping directory '"+fn+"'!" # catch the final run of the list run_end += 1 cleanup(pkg_fns[run_start:run_end]) if opt_verbose: if opt_preview: print ("Preview mode (no files deleted):"), print (n_deleted,"files deleted,",bytes_deleted/1000,"kbytes.")