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On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:33:04 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> > Yes they have. Remove anything in the least suspect and emerge -cp. |
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> > Then emerge -n anything listed that you need. |
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> I don't know which ones I need, and I can't just remove them and cross |
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> my fingers, because these are live servers. |
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You remove them from the world file, not the system. Then run emerge -cp |
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to seen what would be depcleaned. Nothing is uninstalled and nothing |
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stops working. |
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> > There was a script floating around that created a new world file that |
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> > contained all installed packages that were not a dependency of another |
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> > installed package. It's not a perfect fix, but pretty close. |
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> I gave a concrete example from one of our web servers where this would |
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> remove something important. |
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How so? If anything that was not a dependency of something else was in |
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the world file, how could anything be removed? |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I'm not a complete idiot - several parts are missing. |
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