Recent Package Updates
2026-10-10: agedu-20260410-1 (Util for tracking down wasted disk space)
Suppose you're running low on disk space. You need to free some up, by
finding something that's a waste of space and deleting it (or moving it
to an archive medium). How do you find the right stuff to delete, that
saves you the maximum space at the cost of minimum inconvenience?
Unix provides the standard du utility, which scans your disk and tells
you which directories contain the largest amounts of data. That can help
you narrow your search to the things most worth deleting.
However, that only tells you what's big. What you really want to know is
what's too big. By itself, du won't let you distinguish between data
that's big because you're doing something that needs it to be big, and
data that's big because you unpacked it once and forgot about it.
Most Unix file systems, in their default mode, helpfully record when a
file was last accessed. Not just when it was written or modified, but
when it was even read. So if you generated a large amount of data years
ago, forgot to clean it up, and have never used it since, then it ought
in principle to be possible to use those last-access time stamps to tell
the difference between that and a large amount of data you're still
using regularly.
agedu is a program which does this. It does basically the same sort of
disk scan as du, but it also records the last-access times of everything
it scans. Then it builds an index that lets it efficiently generate
reports giving a summary of the results for each subdirectory, and then
it produces those reports on demand.
commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):
agedu: v202604102026-10-10: coreutils-9.12-1 (GNU flavoured basic commands)
The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation
utilities of the GNU operating system. These are the core utilities
which are expected to exist on every operating system.
Previously these utilities were offered as three individual sets of
GNU utilities, fileutils, shellutils, and textutils. Those three have
been combined into a single set of utilities called the coreutils.
The commands are named with 'g' prefix like 'gls' or 'gcp'. If you want
to use them as 'ls' or 'cp', add %p/lib/coreutils/bin to your PATH
or install the coreutils-default package.
As the exception, the 'rm' command is named as 'rm.gnu' instead of 'grm'
because the cwp-su package has another 'grm'.
commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):
coreutils: 9.122026-10-06: python39-3.9.25-3 (Interpreted, object-oriented language)
Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.
This package installs unix python - not the OSX Framework version.
Builds a two-level namespace dynamic libpython (needed for koffice).
The interpreter is installed as "python%type_raw[python]", and all associated
commands are similarly named with the python-version in them. To get
the simple "python3" command, install the fink package "python3" (note:
the "python3" command there is not guaranteed to be python%type_raw[python]!).
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
python3X: gdbm-compat dep upgrade2026-10-06: python38-3.8.20-3 (Interpreted, object-oriented language)
Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.
This package installs unix python - not the OSX Framework version.
Builds a two-level namespace dynamic libpython (needed for koffice).
The interpreter is installed as "python%type_raw[python]", and all associated
commands are similarly named with the python-version in them. To get
the simple "python3" command, install the fink package "python3" (note:
the "python3" command there is not guaranteed to be python%type_raw[python]!).
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
python3X: gdbm-compat dep upgrade2026-10-06: python310-3.10.19-2 (Interpreted, object-oriented language)
Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.
This package installs unix python - not the OSX Framework version.
Builds a two-level namespace dynamic libpython (needed for koffice).
The interpreter is installed as "python%type_raw[python]", and all associated
commands are similarly named with the python-version in them. To get
the simple "python3" command, install the fink package "python3" (note:
the "python3" command there is not guaranteed to be python%type_raw[python]!).
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
python3X: gdbm-compat dep upgrade2026-10-06: python37-3.7.17-3 (Interpreted, object-oriented language)
Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.
This package installs unix python - not the OSX Framework version.
Builds a two-level namespace dynamic libpython (needed for koffice).
The interpreter is installed as "python%type_raw[python]", and all associated
commands are similarly named with the python-version in them. To get
the simple "python3" command, install the fink package "python3" (note:
the "python3" command there is not guaranteed to be python%type_raw[python]!).
commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):
python3X: gdbm-compat dep upgrade
