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I have some serious issues trying to maintain three gentoo systems. I |
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fear it's time to ask for advice. |
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I have avoided "emerge --depclean" since I installed all three of my |
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systems last november. I do update two of the machines frequently. |
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Many issues and compilation failures are popping up, and ordinarily I |
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muddle through a few attempts at "emerge -uDv world" until the |
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problems go away. I have not faithfully either done "revdep-rebuild". |
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Now I have been trying again to follow up on maintainance. It's not |
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working. |
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I have avoided "emerge --depclean" in spite of the recommendations of |
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several list members both to me and as a matter of course in day to |
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day messages. However, I am reluctant because of none other than the |
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initial messages when trying to do so: |
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*** WARNING *** --depclean is known to be broken. It is highly recommended |
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*** WARNING *** that `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` be ran before |
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*** WARNING *** commencing. However, using --depclean may still break link |
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*** WARNING *** level consistency within your system. `revdep-rebuild` |
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*** WARNING *** from app-portage/gentoolkit can help to detect breakage. |
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*** WARNING *** |
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etc. |
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Here are the stats at the end of "remerge --depglean" I just tried today: |
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| Packages installed: 1477 |
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| Packages in world: 320 |
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| Packages in system: 65 |
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| Unique package names: 906 |
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| Required packages: 933 |
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| Number to remove: 569 |
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When running revdep-rebuild, when I try to do every once in a while, |
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invariably, the first package that is attempted to recompile fails, |
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and the process then fails. |
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I have installed a large number of packages, to do a large number of |
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things. There are many programs I could do without. The problem with |
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this approach is the enormous amount of time involved in simple |
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updates. My laptop, with only a 50GB HDD, requires to download 700GB |
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to emerge -uDv world. I am on a dialup at home, at school where I |
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work, the network is inconsistent, and even with several visits to a |
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wireless cafe, I am unable to complete this process. |
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It's time to thin down. I have installed kde and gnome, and a bunch |
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of other display/window managers. I now use enlightenment 17 |
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exclusively, so I could do away with a lot of cruft. But emerge |
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--depclean is removing quite a few programs that are useful to me. |
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I am still being bitten by libexpat.so.0 quite frequently. One of two |
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of the programs involved are serious problems, since the offenders are |
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other libraries or dependencies. Usually I can just re-emerge the |
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affected package, and the problem is temporarily solved. Some |
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programs that I have done that for, are now, after a couple of months, |
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doing it again. |
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Should I go ahead and "emerge --depclean"? How about revdep-rebuild? |
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I am spending my entire summer trying to deal with these systems. I |
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loathe to do this process package by package. |
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Thanks for any ideas. |
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By the way, one of my systems broke down, so I'll be installing from |
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scratch. One will be much more conservative about installing |
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packages---at least gnome, kde, and other window managers. |
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Alan Davis |
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lngndvs@×××××.com |
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@×××××.com 1-670-256-2043 |
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I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I |
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must share it with other people who like it. |
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--------Richard Stallman |
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