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Hello, |
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On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:18:25 +0200 |
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Angelo Arrifano <miknix@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello developers developers and developers, |
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> Ever wondered how much crap is left in your X-years old Gentoo box? |
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> I just developed a python utility to efficiently find orphaned files |
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> in the system. By orphaned files I mean the files that are present on |
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> system directories and don't belong to any installed package. |
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> The package builds a virtual filesystem (cache) on the RAM using |
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> python hash tables. Then it uses the cache to find the ownership of |
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> files inside user-specified dirs. |
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> Building the cache takes less than 10 seconds here in a system with |
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> 1366 installed packages. |
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> This is not intended to be a finished program yet, I'm looking forward |
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> for your constructive commentaries. |
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There is a tool that does that, qfile from app-portage/portage-utils. |
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Check the "-o, --orphans * List orphan files" option. |
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It's not as straight forward as it could be, as it checks only for |
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files specified as arguments or read from file. |
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But you can trivially use it like: |
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# find /dir/you/want/to/check/for/orphans | qfile -o -f - |
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Best, |
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Yuri. |
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