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> > I'm getting ready to dive into the apache2 install on my server. |
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> > In preparation for this I needed things I wasn't using before like |
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> > IMAP (see thread on web mail systems), MySQL, and ldap. |
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> > Being the good little gentoo boy I updated my USE flags to include |
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> > these and other settings that I plan to use but didn't have in before. |
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> > And since my USE flags changed, I'm in the middle of doing the |
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> > "emerge --newuse --emptytree world" (it's actually going quite well; |
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> hum, that seems like a bit of overkill. wouldn't emerge --newuse world |
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> have sufficed? If you only added imap, mysql, and ldap, there should |
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> only be fewer than 150 packages out of 417 that needs to be |
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> recompiled. |
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Well there were actually quite more use flags than that. To prep for |
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apache I added the jpeg, png, xml & xst, php and a bunch of other |
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related flags. Some of them are probably overkill, but it seemed to be |
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a significant enough change to the USE flags that I thought may touch on |
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more of the installed components than such a short list. |
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The --emptytree as well might be overkill, don't know for sure. I |
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thought it would be the safer option to ensure that dependencies, etc., |
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would be covered. Either way it is too late now as the recompiling is |
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almost finished. |
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> > out of 417 packages, only scotty failed due to some sandbox violations |
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> > that I'm not worried about right now). |
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> > But that's got me wondering - am I going to be looking at hundreds |
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> > of /etc updates? |
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> something like that, yes. |
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> BUT, if you are like me and do not modify most of the configuration |
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> files, LOTS of those files in /etc will get handled automatically by |
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> etc-update... you only need worry about those files you have changed |
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> from the defaults. |
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I tend to get into many of the configuration files for one reason or |
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another adding or removing options that are specific for my site (and I |
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guess I'm a control freak ;-) |
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So on the majority I would be looking at many updates. |
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> > So if I am looking at hundreds of /etc updates that I don't really |
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> > want to have to wade through, what would be the easiest way to purge |
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> > them all? |
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> My "find" syntax is a bit rusty, but I think running the following as |
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> root might do it: (you can sub -f for -i if you are real adventurous) |
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> find /etc -name "._cfg00*" -exec /bin/rm -i {}; |
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That's the route I'm probably going to take. Thanks Willie! |
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