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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>> What do you guys think of this? Do you know of a good cruft removal script? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> Yep, there's quite good one in gentoo itself. |
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>>>> Basically, you'll need to write a short config for it, consisting of |
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>>>> lines like "cruft name", "cruft src uri" and a few more lines if you'll |
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>>>> need to pass some extra parameters to configure/make/install. |
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>>>> It'll build the package in a sandbox, then transfer it to destination, |
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>>>> memorizing every change it did and preventing collisions and config |
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>>>> overwrites. |
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>>>> Just put that config script into an ebuild file and use portage to |
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>>>> build it - as simple as it gets ;) |
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>>> I suppose you and Jesus are right, but what about cruft removal? Are |
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>>> you saying Gentoo is 100% cruft-free? I've got a lot of junk in /etc |
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>>> and especially ~/.* |
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>>> - Grant |
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> [snip] |
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>> You have to clean out /etc and home directories yourself. |
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> Exactly. Nothing to help me along? I'll check out qfile, but I'm |
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> surprised there isn't a good script for this. |
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> I'm the only one interested in a filesystem audit? |
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> - Grant |
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>> Portage does do a good job of removing all the other files tho. If it |
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>> puts it there, it will remove it if you unmerge a package. |
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>> Dale |
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I think if you enable auditing in the kernel and emerge |
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sys-process/audit you can see the access history of any file on your |
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system. (doesn't help after the fact, but going forward...) At least |
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then you could see which user/program did things to which files. I |
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think even if a file is missing that you think should have been there |
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you can do an audit search and see who deleted it. I've never tried it |
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myself but that's how I understand it. I could be wrong. |
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And it's not what you asked for, but for cleaning cruft out of |
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distfiles i use eclean from app-portage/gentoolkit... works great. |
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Whenever I'm running low on space I run it and it zaps a few gigs of |
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unneeded stuff without deleting the distfiles of active packages. |
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Paul |
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