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On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:42:41AM +0100, Johannes Ball? wrote: |
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> Am Monday 11 November 2002 21:38 schrieb José Fonseca: |
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> > I never do `rm -f /usr/portage/distfiles'. I find very useful having the |
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> > sources of the installed packages ihandy as it avoids downloading |
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> > everything over andagain when updating to new releases of the same |
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> > version, or when installing Gentoo on another system. But after some |
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> > time that directory gets too fat and is too boring to eliminate the |
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> > deprecated packages by hand so I've made a script to automate this. You |
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> > can see it attached. |
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> Sounds good! I was missing this feature ... |
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> > |
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> > I've started with a shell script, then python, then I've read qpkg.sh, |
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> > ebuild.sh, portage.py and many others in the search of the easiest way |
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> > to do this. In the end everything boiled down to 2 lines - the rest is |
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> > just sintatic sugar! |
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> > |
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> > I hope you enjoy it. |
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> > |
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> > José Fonseca |
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> |
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> When I run your script, though, I get this: |
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> sed: can't read /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19: |
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> No such file or directory |
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[...] |
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These are packages which were installed from your '/usr/local/portage' |
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or were removed from portage. |
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> |
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> Could this be my fault? Sometimes when I was messing with the files in |
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> /usr/portage I wasn't sure whether an 'emerge rsync' would fix it all up |
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> again ... |
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> |
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> I also have some stuff in /usr/local/portage ... |
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It's not really your fault, but just a limitation of the script. Please |
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read my second post for more info about this. |
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I decided not to flush the error output to /dev/null so that one is |
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alerted that the sources specific to these package [ do not belong to |
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any other]will get deleted. |
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I could write a variation of the script without these shortcomings - |
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that actually read the installed ebuilds which is *much* slower. I |
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personally don't need it as I only have little stuff in |
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/usr/local/portage. |
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If there is enough interest I'll add a couple of operation modes to the |
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script: "dummy", and "safe"; to make a dry-run and/or a safe evaluation |
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of the installed packages repectively. |
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José Fonseca |
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