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Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> posted |
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d257c3560711260753u4406ae26m88f6f53164332ebb@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:53:19 +0100: |
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> i'd like to do a thorough clean of my system, since i still get some |
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> problems with orphaned and stale files. is there a script or something |
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> that could help me do this?! i usually do manual remove when i remove a |
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> package from the system but this is getting more and more time losing. |
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> so if there's an automated way i'd be glad to try it out. |
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> thanks in advance for your replies. |
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Current portage (~ anyway, stable isn't what I'd call "current" for many |
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packages, so I run ~arch by default) now has FEATURES=unmerge-orphans. |
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Read about it in the make.conf manpage. That helps with files that were |
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part of the old package but were changed since merge, as long as they |
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aren't config-protected as well. This feature may eventually be enabled |
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by default, but it hasn't been yet, because there are some files that |
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portage didn't formerly track that it is now, that would be removed with |
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this feature enabled in some circumstances. |
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That'll help with new files, but it won't help you clean up old cruft |
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that isn't owned by anything now, or config-protected stuff as in /etc. |
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There's also a python script called localpurge (aka orphans.py) |
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available, written by Alec Warner (one of the portage devs), that can |
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help. As with emerge --depclean and similar functions, use it with |
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caution, in this case meaning do NOT run it as root on /, with the force/ |
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remove/recurse options all three! Used with the default --scan option |
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(and --recurse if desired), however, it simply prints a list that you can |
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act upon, or you can use --remove WITHOUT using --force, and get a prompt |
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for each file. However, as with emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild, I |
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strongly prefer getting the list and then doing the remerges/removals/ |
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whatever manually. Run it with the --help option for usage instructions. |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~antarus/orphans.py |
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One hint on it. It doesn't say so in the usage, but if recursive is set, |
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it walks the entire tree below the dirs it is given -- and takes quite |
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some time doing it. Thus, pointing it at / on a typical system is a |
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waste, since you get all of /home and the like listed too. It's more |
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useful to feed it a list of dirs, /bin /sbin /var /usr /opt /etc, and let |
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it look below them. It'll still list a lot of "extra" stuff, but at |
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least you won't be loading it down with /root and /home, and it'll be |
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faster as a result, too. It'll still take awhile to run, tho... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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