removing file from the look-aside cache

[Michel Salim]

On 23/11/05, Dmitry Butskoy <buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru> wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>
> >The page
> >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingCvsFaq
> >has very usefull information on how to update a package, but if I've read
> >well, it lacks the make invocation that should be used to remove a source
> >file from the look-aside cache, without replacing it.
> >
> >
> If you have foo-0.0.tar.gz and bar-0.0.tar.gz and decide to remove
> bar-0.0.tar.gz, just use:
>
> make new-sources FILES="foo-0.0.tar.gz"
>
>
To clarify, this does not remove the old source file. As Warren
pointed out to me on IRC a few days ago, this allows previous versions
of the package to still be built.

Apparently disk space is cheap :)

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Michel Salim
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