A pacman cleaning tool without any dependencies to libalpm.

The main purpose of this tool is to be able to clean the pacman cache with systems that don't run ArchLinux and therefore don't have pacman installed. Existing tools, such as pacman-contrib, pkgcacheclean or pacleaner require pacman/libalpm and therefore cannot be installed (without much effort) on alternative Linux distros.

In particular, the docker image of Flexo, which is currently based on Debian, uses this tool.

Cargo is required to build scruffy:

cargo build --release

The -h flag explains all options:

./target/release/scruffy -h

To print all files that are older than the 2 most recent versions in /var/cache/flexo/pkg, use the --dryrun (or -d) flag in combination with the --verbose (or -v) flag:

./target/release/scruffy -v -d --keep 2 -c /var/cache/flexo/pkg

> community/os/x86_64/0ad-a23.1-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
> community/os/x86_64/abcde-2.9.3-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
> core/os/x86_64/acl-2.2.53-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> extra/os/x86_64/adobe-source-code-pro-fonts-2.030ro+1.050it-6-any.pkg.tar.zst
> [more files…]
> extra/os/x86_64/zziplib-0.13.70-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
> 
> [dry run] 1852 packages removed (disk space saved: 7.36 GiB)

The following will remove all files except for the 3 most recent versions:

./target/release/scruffy -d --keep 3 -c /var/cache/flexo/pkg