[gentoo-dev] Lost files in install

[Christian Hoenig]

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Hi,

I thought about posting this here rather than in the forums since I expect 
more feedback here.

What I did:
I made a list of all files of installed packages:
	for i in `qpkg --nocolors -v -I` ; 
		do qpkg -l --nocolors $i >> ~/installed ; 	
	done

Then I compared this list with selected dirs from my install to find those 
files which do not belong to a package:
for j in bin etc lib opt sbin usr ; 
	do for i in `find ${j}/` ; 
		do if ( ! grep -q "/${i}" ~/installed ) ; 
			then echo "/${i}" >> ~/notlinked_${j}; fi  ; 
		done ; 
	done

And I was shocket by the outcome!
The following is just a small excerpt from what I got (ie. from /usr ) :

	/usr/bin/fixpackages
	[snip]
	/usr/lib/find
	/usr/lib/find/code
	/usr/lib/find/bigram
	/usr/lib/find/frcode
	/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
	/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
	/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux/perllocal.pod
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/tgmath.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/personality.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/utsname.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/vt.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/klog.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/errno.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/xattr.ph
	[snip]
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/File::Spec::Win32.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/Test::Simple.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/Test::Tutorial.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/File::Spec::Cygwin.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/File::Spec::Epoc.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/File::Spec::Unix.3pm
	[snip]
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES/xmms.mo
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo

This machine was installed very recently. 
All packages have been merged using emerge, no other method was used!

Now my question(s):
*	Is my logic behind those little bash scripts wrong?
*	Is portage running wild and missing those files which should be 
	part of packages?

So, I'm really interested in that point. 

take care, have fun
/christian
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