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Hello, Dale. |
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:12:32 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I been working on the profile switch. I followed the directions in the |
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> news item up until the rm part in #12. I did a equery b for a few files |
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> in the two directories and it has files that equery shows belonging to |
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> packages. They are not orphans since they are owned. Here is a list of |
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> the files: |
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> root@fireball / # ls -al /lib32/ |
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> total 3956 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jun 17 23:14 . |
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> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 36864 Jun 17 01:18 .. |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 17 19:25 cpp -> /usr/bin/cpp |
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> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 19:46 dhcpcd |
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> drwxr-xr-x 70 root root 12288 Jun 17 19:19 firmware |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 19:21 gentoo |
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> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 9 2010 grub |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 17 2010 .keep |
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[ .... ] |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 773 Jun 17 02:51 tclooConfig.sh |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 17 03:22 terminfo -> ../share/terminfo |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 21:35 tmpfiles.d |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 1 06:50 upower |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 10:55 vdpau |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 266 Jun 17 03:26 xml2Conf.sh |
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> root@fireball / # |
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> As one can see, some of those could be important. I noticed grub, |
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> nvidia, dracut and others that could cause issues if they failed. Is it |
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> really safe to just rm them or did I miss something? Do I need to do |
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> something else not mentioned in the news item for this? |
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At this stage, /lib32 should be a symlink. I think that step 12 means |
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just the symlink should be removed, NOT all the stuff inside what it |
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points to. |
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So I think what you should do is: |
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$ rm /lib32 |
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, but definitely NOT a recursive rm on that symlink. |
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I had to remove one of these two symlinks by hand (I can't remember |
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which one), and I've not had any trouble since. ("Since" meaning Saturday |
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evening.) |
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> The rest of the todo list worked fine. I'm just concerned about removing |
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> these files when they are owned by packages. |
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> Thoughts?? |
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As above, DON'T remove the files, just the symlink. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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