Remove downloaded patch files after successful patching.

[dalgibbard]

• Files are downloaded from Citrix in .zip format. These are decompressed, and the .zip version deleted.
• After patching, the non-compressed patch files still remain...
• A flag for --no-delete or -d or something should be made available for stopping this deletion process.

[dalgibbard]

v1.4 Planned Change:

• Auto-Remove downloaded patch files after successful application.

\ Allow flag to NOT delete the patch files.

[dalgibbard]

\ Add new flag to documenation as appropriate.

[dsiminiuk]

This is almost working. After the patches are applied all files except the source files are removed.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18982874 Sep 20 04:49 XS62ESP1011-src-pkgs.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18982100 Sep 26 05:31 XS62ESP1013-src-pkgs.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4821139 Oct  3 09:03 XS62ESP1014-src-pkgs.tar.bz2

[sjkeerthi]

This is about the deleting the the downloaded zip file. I am considering about once the patch installed you can see the /var/patch will occupies some space of disk.

Should consider to have options as --cleanpatch this should work as xe patch-clean command in backed.

[dsiminiuk]

I solved this another way.

create a file in /etc/cron.daily call it clean-var-patch it contains

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/find /var/patch -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*-*-*-*" -mtime + 1 -exec rm {} \; 2>/dev/null

And let the cleanup happen by itself.

[dalgibbard]

Tested this in the new code; works well. Both src packages and /var/patch files are cleaned after each patch is successfully deployed. -C flag has been made available to disable the cleaning actions.

The only caveat is that the patch-clean command doesn't apply to pool slaves in a pool scenario; but that's a small price to pay really.

Will close this once i've committed my changes.