Say user customizations in /var/cache/tb-binary/.tb/ are discouraged? Just delete all /var/cache/tb-binary/.tb/tor-browser.old.* in Whonix 14?
What is the purpose of this folder? Qubes specific?
Why would user customizations ever be put in any /cache/ folder?
How does this relate to ~/.tb/ ?
So these propagate from the TemplateVM to all TemplateBasedAppVMs.
What exactly is the use case when removing old /var/cache/tb-binary/.tb/tor-browser.old.* is bad?
IIUC this ticket is blocking tb-updater stable upgrade (T690), which would fix qubes-whonix build failure (T710). Which is a blocker for having Whonix templates for Qubes 4.0.
What exactly is the use case when removing old `/var/cache/tb-binary/.tb/tor-browser.old.*` is bad?
easiest solution that is doable.
IIUC this ticket is blocking tb-updater stable upgrade (https://phabricator.whonix.org/T690), which would fix qubes-whonix build failure (https://phabricator.whonix.org/T710). Which is a blocker for having Whonix templates for Qubes 4.0.
Thank you very much for the PR!
Do we need ls? Glob (*) alone should do?
Shows the inside of the folder.
That works better. But still not sufficient. It's in the wrong order.
The version with that fix is now available from jessie-proposed-updates.
The idea was to keep X newest entries. not oldest, right? So the first order is right (the code skip X "first" directories). Also, I'd trust more file names, not modification time - the later is easy to mess up (and a consequence will be removing wrong directory - possibly containing just modified data).
Fixed package uploaded to jessie-proposed-updates.
Patrick assigned this task to marmarek.