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From: "W.Kenworthy" <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] glsa-check and unused packages
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:39:34
Message-Id: 1126395465.18094.36.camel@bunyip
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] glsa-check and unused packages by Ben Munat
1 use "glsa-check -f package" on each offender first. It will safely
2 remove the bad packages.
3
4 Due to its history of breaking systems, depclean should be left until
5 absolutely necessary.
6
7 BillK
8
9 On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 15:35 -0700, Ben Munat wrote:
10 > Owen Ford wrote:
11 > > On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 11:49 -0700, Ben Munat wrote:
12 > >
13 > >>First, glsa-check claims that I'm vulnerable to 200412-02 and 200505-01. The first is
14 > >>pdflib and the second is various horde packages. However, I have the current versions of
15 > >>these installed -- the versions that the glsa says I need to solve the vulnerability. So,
16 > >>why would glsa-check say I'm vulnerable when I'm not?
17 > >
18 > >
19 > > There are probably versions of those packages slotted. I use emerge -Cp
20 > > package to see which are installed.
21 > >
22 >
23 > Very good... exactly the problem. Thanks.
24 >
25 > As for dealing with all my orphaned packages, I'm figuring on going through the output of
26 > "emerge --depclean" and unmerging everything that comes up with no dependencies under
27 > "equery depends" and is something that I don't think I'll use. Does that sound reasonable?
28 >
29 > Oh, and I'm assuming that "equery depends" just checks for installed packages that depend
30 > on the given package... anyone know any way to check a package's dependency against the
31 > entire portage tree?
32 >
33 > b
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Re: [gentoo-server] glsa-check and unused packages Sam Halicke <tuscantwelve@×××××.com>