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This packages was inspired by pacman-cleanup-hook and builds on top of it by making the hook configurable. For a basic, non-configurable cleanup, check out that one!

For me removal of uninstalled packages is not working. Can anybody give me some pointers what I'm doing wrong?

I set up paccache-hook.conf as follows:

[bhe@box ~]$ cat /etc/paccache-hook.conf 
extra_args=-v
cache_dirs=()

installed=true
installed_keep=2
installed_extra_args=
installed_move_to=

uninstalled=true
uninstalled_keep=0
uninstalled_extra_args="'--min-mtime=14 days ago'"
uninstalled_move_to=

Alsa-plugins was uninstalled more than 14 days ago, and still is uninstalled: [2024-04-16T22:57:10+0200] [ALPM] removed alsa-plugins (1:1.2.7.1-2)

[bhe@box ~]$ sudo pacman -Q alsa-plugins
error: package 'alsa-plugins' was not found

Still the package file is in cache, even though mtime is way more than "14 days ago":

[bhe@box ~]$ stat /var/cache/pacman/pkg/alsa-plugins-1\:1.2.7.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
  File: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/alsa-plugins-1:1.2.7.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
  Size: 89425       Blocks: 176        IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 1,10    Inode: 562135      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2023-11-06 23:12:07.899236660 +0100
Modify: 2023-03-03 10:08:08.000000000 +0100
Change: 2023-11-06 23:12:03.082474118 +0100
 Birth: 2023-11-06 23:12:03.029139722 +0100

Has anybody an idea why this is not working?

I lost cache of uninstalld package because of uninstalled_keep=0 and even though i read the comment first, i didn't know any way to prevent it.

as mentioned by @archz, it would be nice to have those as defaults. i personally liked @escorares args, as it would remove cache of uninstalld package after 30 days.

setting uninstalled_keep=1 wil mean the package will be never removed unless explicitly done.

I personally configured paccache-hook.conf so that if I change my mind and install a package back, it doesn't have to be downloaded again if 30 days haven't passed.

uninstalled_extra_args="'--min-mtime=30 days ago'"

uninstalled_keep=0 can stay since

  --min-atime <time>, --min-mtime <time>
      Keep packages with an atime/mtime that is not older than the
      time given, **even if this means keeping more than specified
      through the --keep option.** Accepts arguments according to
      info "Date input formats", e.g.  30 days ago.

This is great, thank you!

I'd like to offer two suggestions for consideration (in light of a mistake I made):

1) set default uninstalled_keep=1 -> It's safer than 0. The user may need to reinstall a package from their cache in the event of an erroneous uninstall.

2) set default extra_args=-v -> The hook runs immediately after being installed, and may remove unexpected packages (as it did for me). With verbose logging, the user can easily determine what was removed. I see another user below mentioned they like verbosity off, but it's easier to remove the flag than it is to deal with lost info from a silent execution.

Thanks!

And thank you for this package! Appreciated!

@Skycoder42, please kindly install your custom BSD license in package(). Thank you in advance.

was annoyed by pacman-cleanup-hook's verbose output and lack of config.
this is perfect!
thank you <3

Thanks, really useful.

Looks like there's a bug in the for loop in paccache-hook.sh:

for cdir in $cache_dirs

only works with the first value in the array.

for cdir in ${cache_dirs[@]}

iterates over all values. That's bash syntax though...

This packages was inspired by pacman-cleanup-hook and builds on top of it by making the hook configurable. For a basic, non-configurable cleanup, check out that one!