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As I type this gentoolkit-0.2.1 has been marked stable on x86 and I |
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expect it to be marked stable on other architectures in the next few |
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days. |
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Here is a summary of the major changes between gentoolkit-0.2.0 and |
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gentoolkit-0.2.1. A detailed listing of the changes are |
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in /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1/ChangeLog |
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* eclean |
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Added eclean utility for cleaning out your distfiles and Packages |
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directories. |
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Sample usage to remove distfiles for packages no longer installed on |
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your system: |
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eclean-dist --destructive --fetch-restricted ----time-limit=1w |
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--destructive means to delete files for older version of installed |
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packages. The default is to leave all source files for an installed |
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package |
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--fetch-restricted means to not delete files that are fetch-restricted |
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--time-limit means to not delete files newer than the time specified |
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eclean also supports excluding specific packages and categories through |
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the use of an exclusion file. Please read man eclean for more details. |
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* revdep-rebuild |
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Updated revdep-rebuild to be more configurable by the user. One of the |
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major complaints about revdep-rebuild is that is always wants to rebuild |
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certain binary packages. For example openoffice-bin, |
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mozilla-firefox-bin, etc. The main variable that users will potentially |
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want to modify is SEARCH_DIRS_MASK. You can modify this variable either |
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in your environment or by placing it in /etc/make.conf. |
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For example to ensure that revdep-rebuild doesn't look in /opt you can |
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add the line SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt" to /etc/make.conf and |
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revdep-rebuild will not search that directory. |
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Removed the hard-coded paths of directories to search and dynamically |
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generate the list using the path from /etc/profile and /etc/ld.so.conf. |
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This means that as you install packages, revdep-rebuild will normally |
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automatically pick up any paths that have been added by the package. |
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Read man revdep-rebuild for more information on the updated |
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revdep-rebuild. |
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Finally, as much as I would like it, revdep-rebuild is not infallible. |
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There are still open bugs and it can still miss things. |
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* equery |
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Many fixes to equery to make it more usable. The major fix was fixing an |
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issue that caused it to be extremely slow and memory hungry. However, |
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even with that fix, equery is not the fastest program on the block. If |
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the lack of speed bothers you, I would recommend investigating the |
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app-portage/portage-utils package. |
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If you have any questions on the new gentoolkit, feel free to ask here |
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on gentoo-user and I will answer them provided another user doesn't beat |
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me to it :) |
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Regards, |
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Paul |
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