[oe] [RFC] remove unused svn-updates.dpatch files

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Graham Gower <graham.gower at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 March 2010 07:57, Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/3/1 Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org>:
>>> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 08:10:31AM +1030, Graham Gower wrote:
>>
>>>> What should offend you more is stuff like this:
>>>>
>>>> [grg at rak gcc]$ pwd
>>>> /home/grg/oe/openembedded/recipes/gcc
>>>> [grg at rak gcc]$ find . -name svn-updates.dpatch -exec ls -l {} \;
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 grg users 17668056 2009-11-15 12:59
>>>> ./gcc-4.4.2/debian/svn-updates.dpatch
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 grg users 17668056 2009-11-15 12:59
>>>> ./gcc-4.4.1/debian/svn-updates.dpatch
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 grg users 17668056 2009-11-15 12:59
>>>> ./gcc-4.3.1/debian/svn-updates.dpatch
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 grg users 17668056 2009-11-15 12:59
>>>> ./gcc-4.3.3/debian/svn-updates.dpatch
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 grg users 17668056 2009-11-15 12:59
>>>> ./gcc-4.3.4/debian/svn-updates.dpatch
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 grg users 17668056 2009-11-15 12:59
>>>> ./gcc-svn/debian/svn-updates.dpatch
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 grg users 17668056 2009-11-15 12:59
>>>> ./gcc-4.3.2/debian/svn-updates.dpatch
>>>> [grg at rak gcc]$ grep svn-updates *
>>>> [grg at rak gcc]$
>>>
>>> So, there is 125 MB wasted right there... Thanks for the heads up! :)
>>
>> Checked it and the 4.4.[12] and gcc-svn versions are gone.
>> the gcc-4.3.[1-4] versions are still there but seem unused:
>>
>> frans at linux-suse:~/oe/openembedded/recipes/gcc> grep -r svn-updates.dpatch .
>> frans at linux-suse:~/oe/openembedded/recipes/gcc>
>>
>> Howvever as gcc is quite core, I'd rather verify first that it is ok
>> to remove them
>> (or can someone with more gcc knowledge remove)
>>
>> Frans.
>>
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>
> Perhaps there are other patches in the debian directories that are also unused?
>

yes I did clean few of later releases but not older ones. From cloning
point it does not reduce anything
because the files will be there in repo but I cleaned up later
versions because for adding recipes for newer releases from here on
copying patch directories will save us adding unused new files.

Thanks

-Khem