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On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:44 am, Andy Arbon wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I've been wondering about writing a cruft detecting script.. The basic |
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> idea would be: |
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> * Produce a list of every file that Portage claims responsibility for on |
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> the current system (ie. the results of qpkg -l `qpkg -I`) |
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> * Produce a list of every file in the system (ie. find /) |
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> * Remove the first set from the second |
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> * Whatever's left is 'cruft' |
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> The above needs to be tweaked so that find doesn't look in areas that |
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> are not used for system things, eg. /home, /tmp etc. |
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> Has anyone written something like this, and does anyone have any reason |
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> why something like this wouldn't work or be useful? |
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I think this could be very useful to some, but not very useful for others. I |
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often install software not using an ebuild, so for me it would detect some of |
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the stuff that I installed without an ebuild. |
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--Brian |
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> Cheers, |
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> Andy |
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