Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>  > I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between
>  > updates. I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or
>  > back room somewhere. It hasn't been powered up in a long time. I log
>  > in and want to figure out what's in front of me with respect to
>  > updates. I type emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's
>  > just wrong.
>
>  Mark,
>
>  This might be worth discussing.

Alan,
   This evening I found eix-test-obsolete. It looks to me like while
it probably doesn't do all of what we've been discussing it might
possibly be helpful. While it doesn't look like it fixes the problems
I've been seeing it does identify some interesting inconsistencies on
my desktop machine.

<SNIP>
Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked):

[D] media-tv/mythtv (0.21_p16944@04/05/2008 -> 0.20.2_p15634):
Homebrew PVR project
[D] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (2.6.23-r3(2.6.23-r3)@01/16/2008
2.6.23-r6(2.6.23-r6)@01/25/2008 2.6.23-r8(2.6.23-r8)@02/20/2008
2.6.24-r3(2.6.24-r3)@03/18/2008 2.6.24-r4(2.6.24-r4)@04/11/2008 ->
2.6.16-r13 2.6.19-r5 2.6.23-r9 2.6.24-r3 2.6.24-r4): Full sources
including the Gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree
[D] x11-themes/mythtv-themes (0.21_p16505@04/05/2008 ->
0.20.2_p14301): A collection of themes for the MythTV project.
[1] /usr/local/portage
<SNIP>

   Still, if rsync is going to throw things away while making my
machine identical to the server then I'm not going to be in great
shape.

   Anyway, interesting tool if you haven't seen it. (I'm sure you have...)

Cheers,
Mark
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