teichmann@535: delete-old-debs.py
teichmann@535: ------------------
teichmann@535: Script to remove old deb files from a given list
teichmann@535: of directories. Tree Packager builds a lot of deb files
teichmann@535: when running a long time. Not all of them a needed forever.
teichmann@535: We had a directory with over 13.000(!) deb files eating
teichmann@535: up 15 GiB of hard disk space. This lead to performance
teichmann@535: problems and problems generating the corresponding repository.
teichmann@535: This script enables you only leave the n-th youngest deb
teichmann@535: files per package in the directory. It may be used inside
teichmann@535: a cron job to garbage collect old package.
teichmann@535: 
teichmann@535: Usage: delete-old-debs.py [options] dir ...
teichmann@535: 
teichmann@535: Options:
teichmann@535:   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
teichmann@535:   -v, --verbose         verbose output
teichmann@535:   -d, --dry-run         don't remove the old deb files
teichmann@535:   -k KEEP, --keep=KEEP  number of files to keep. Default: 3