Hello Assaf, Thanks very much for your patch - I've applied it in change set 5770:a5e0a5d3c0a1. Greg Von Kuster On Jul 1, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to use the built-in cleanup scripts (instead of my own), came across a possible bug:

1. When running "delete_datasets.sh", the "info_only" flag is ignored. This is evident by running it twice with "-i" and getting different results (the second time - no datasets are deleted).

2. When running "purge_datasets.sh" with the "info_only" flag, no information is printed at all, making it impossible to know what would be purged without the "-i" flag. The only way to see what is purged is actually purging the datasets (kind of defeats the purpose of "info only").

I think the attached patch fixes both issues.

3. The relevant wiki page (https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Config/PurgeHistoriesAndDat...) says about "delete_datasets.sh": "The purge_datasets.sh script will need to be run afterwards to remove the base datasets from disk."

But the example on the wiki page (and in the script) has "-r" - so the files are actually deleted from the disk by "delete_datasets.sh".

Does one still need to run "purge_datasets.sh" if used "-r" with "delete_datasets.sh" ?

4. If I accidentally run "purge_datasets.sh" without "-r" = is there a way to delete the stale files ? if not, perhaps the script should require either "-i" or "-r" to avoid such cases (or provide another cleanup script?)

comments are welcomed, -gordon

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