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On Wednesday 02 November 2005 21:54, Duncan wrote: |
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> Hmm... That --noreplace is a new one on me. I normally simply |
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> echo <category/pkg> >> /var/lib/portage/world |
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> That appends the echoed cat/package to the end of the named file, |
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> accomplishing what we are after. The only down side to doing it manually |
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> (using echo) is if you typo. Still, that's not hard to catch and fix, if |
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> depclean still wants to remove the package you (thought you) just added. |
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> Newer versions of portage (don't believe it's in stable portage yet) even |
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> have an emaint command that removes the bad lines for you. |
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So did I, but now the warning `emerge depclean` produces tells me I can use |
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this. I find this rather nice as it is a lot safer and keeps the world file |
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free from user errors. For example replacing >> with > would be the most |
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destructive user error :P |
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I have portage 2.0.53_rc7 installed and I'm not sure which version introduced |
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--noreplace so it might not be available for everyone yet. |
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> 2. All this should reemphasize the role of the world file. It should |
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> list all your "leaf" packages, for the most part, executables. It should |
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> NOT list "trunk and branch" packages, dependencies of the leaves, for the |
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> most part, libraries and the like. |
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Ed Catmur has written a script that prunes the world file. |
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http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/~ecatmur/my-bin/dep |
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This will tune your world to only list leaf packages. |
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But this may not always be desired, use at your own discretion. |
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I've got nothing else to add so I guess this concludes the course "Maintaining |
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Gentoo in a nutshell" by Duncan and Harm Geerts :) |
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