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Rumen Yotov wrote: |
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>On (08/01/06 02:44), C. Beamer wrote: |
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>>Hi all, |
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>>I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of |
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>>updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download the |
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>>binary from sun and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles. |
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>>Prior to downloading, I unmerge (or thought I did), the previous |
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>>installation of jre. However, after downloading the new version and |
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>>checking /usr/portage/distfiles/, I discovered that there are about 3 |
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>>other versions of sun-jre-bin in this directory. Can these be removed? |
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>>Also, despite the unmerge, there are 3 other sun-jre-bin-<version> |
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>>directories in /opt. Can these also be safely removed? |
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>>Regards, |
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>>Colleen |
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>>gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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>Hi, |
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>Yes, you can (i even do it ;-) remove old package sources. The single |
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drawback is that if |
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>you need to downgrade (rarely happens) you have to download them again |
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(i use "distclean" script). |
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>Check www.gentooexperimental.org for this and other usefull scripts. |
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>To your second question-just think (not sure) this are only parts of the |
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old installs. |
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>As far as you removed (emerge -C) the previous packages, this isn't a |
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great problem. |
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>Check the dirs content. |
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>HTH.Rumen |
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Thanks. I did figure out that the directories in /opt were just |
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remnants - they only had the man directory in them, so I removed |
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them. Will check out the link. Also will take under advisement your |
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caution regarding the removal of files in /usr/portage/distfiles. |
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Based on what you said, I think I will keep one older version of the |
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sun-jre-bin versions, but I'll remove the others. |
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And this did help. |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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