Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] portage revisited

[Zach Forrest]

You can use pkg-clean from gentoolkit.

Joshua Hansen wrote:
> I have found that about the only time you need to leave a previous
> version on is if there is a large difference in the version number
> (assuming you do regular updates). I like keeping things clean so I go
> through and do my unmerges about once every week or two.
>
> I'm thinking about writing a script (and the reason I bring this up is
> if it already exists, point me to it so i don't waste the time) that
> uses the qpkg --dups command and then lists and then asks if you want to
> remove certain packages. Maybe even include an option to kill all
> duplicates and just have a little file that contains things like
> FreeType and DB.
>
> Is there something like that? And, if anyone were interested in
> including it with the scripts collection (like Gentools) what would be
> the preferred language to write it in?
>
> Joshua
>
> On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 14:10, Rogan wrote:
>
>>emerge --unmerge work fine.  I am not sure if you neet to unmerge older versions of software, but from my experience, older versions are 'updated', ie. removed when you install a new version.  When in doubt, don't unmerge ;)
>>
>>Rogan
>>
>>On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:28:01 -0800
>>"Adam Ingram-Goble" <adam-aig@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>the documentation on portage at the site is dated Oct 21,  I'm wondering if
>>>any new features (such as emerge --unmerge) have been implemented.  also is
>>>it critical that you unmerge some old version of some software, or can it
>>>remain resident until you're sure its ok to get rid of?
>>>
>>>adam
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: gentoo-user-admin@g.o
>>>[mailto:gentoo-user-admin@g.o]On Behalf Of Glenn E Burns
>>>Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:51 PM
>>>To: gentoo-user@g.o
>>>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage revisited
>>>
>>>
>>>chad:
>>>
>>>i tried both emerge rsync/sync and i still got errors.... i'm doing an
>>>emerge-webrsync right now and hopefully that will have the correct
>>>ebuild files.
>>>
>>>worse comes to worse, I still have the portage binaries from the last
>>>time this happened to me (_pre9)
>>>
>>>...ok emerge-webrsync worked ... emerging portage... presto!
>>>
>>>all is well...
>>>
>>>peace!
>>>
>>>-g
>>>
>>>Chad M. Huneycutt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Glenn E Burns wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>last night i did "emerge --world update", all seemed ok until i tried
>>>>>to do "emerge rsync" just a few moments ago... this is the error output:
>>>>>
>>>>># emerge rsync
>>>>>!!!  not recognized; exiting.
>>>>>
>>>>>Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>>>>[ebuild   R  ] sys-apps/portage-1.8.9_pre25 to /
>>>>>
>>>>>did portage-1.8.9_pre25 get unmasked and it wasn't supposed to be?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Yep.  emerge rsync (also try emerge sync), and emerge portage, and you
>>>>should revert back to 1.8.8
>>>>
>>>>Sorry about that.
>>>>
>>>
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