pclean dist - remove distfiles¶

Synopsis¶

pclean dist [-p] [-x EXCLUDE] [-X EXCLUDE_FILE] [-S PKGSET] [-m TIME]
            [-s SIZE] [-I] [-E] [-f] [-r REPO] [-h] [--debug] [-q]
            [-v] [--color BOOLEAN]
            [TARGET ...]

Generic Cleaning Options¶

TARGET¶: packages to target for cleaning

-p, --pretend¶: dry run without performing any changes

-x, --exclude EXCLUDE¶: list of packages to exclude from removal

-X, --exclude-file EXCLUDE_FILE¶: path to exclusion file

-S, --pkgsets PKGSET¶: list of pkgsets to include or exclude from removal

File Cleaning Options¶

-m, --modified TIME¶

Don’t remove files that have been modified since a given time. For example, to skip files newer than a year use “1y” as an argument to this option. this option.

Supported units are y, m, w, and d, and s representing years, months, weeks, days, and seconds, respectively.

-s, --size SIZE¶

Don’t remove files bigger than a given size. For example, to skip files larger than 100 megabytes use “100M” as an argument to this option.

Supported units are B, K, M, and G representing bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes, respectively.

Repo Cleaning Options¶

-I, --installed¶: skip files for packages that are currently installed

-E, --exists¶: skip files for packages that relate to ebuilds in the tree

-f, --fetch-restricted¶: skip fetch-restricted files

-r, --repo REPO¶: Target repository to search for matches. If no repo is specified all relevant repos are used.

Base Options¶

-h, --help¶: Show this help message and exit. To get more information see the related man page.

--debug¶: Enable debug checks and show verbose debug output.

-q, --quiet¶: Suppress non-error, informational messages.

-v, --verbose¶: Increase the verbosity of various output.

--color BOOLEAN¶: Toggle colored output support. This can be used to forcibly enable color support when piping output or other situations where stdout is not a tty.