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>>>> What do you guys think of this? Do you know of a good cruft removal script? |
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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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> 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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