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Tom Eastman wrote: |
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>Hey all, |
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>Sorry about any imagery conjured up by the subject line... I've been |
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>running the same gentoo system on my computer for several years now... |
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>keeping it relativey updated, but over time there's always cruft that |
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>builds up, stuff that gets left behind during upgrades, or re-installs. |
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> Packages that don't change version for a long time, and don't get |
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>recompiled with the latest compiler, etc etc and so on and so forth. |
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>So what I want to do is give my computer a complete clean-out. What I |
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>really CAN'T be bothered doing is a complete format and re-install! |
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>One idea I've had is to delete almost every entry in my 'world' file, |
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>and then do an 'emerge depclean'. That would be pretty cool, empty out |
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>a huge amount of stuff, and then start re-installing at my leisure. |
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>But what that *wouldn't* do is delete all the files in random places |
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>that aren't owned by any particular package. This would be a good thing |
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>to do when spring cleaning, as it were. |
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>Is there a tool that will allow me to find *all* files that aren't owned |
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>by any package, so that I can then decide what to do with them? |
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>Obviously skipping directories such as /home/. Then I can delete |
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>everything that doesn't look critical, hopefully without losing my stuff |
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>in places like /boot or /etc either :-) |
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>Then I think I would do an emerge -e system, and then start re-adding |
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>applications I wanted. |
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>What do you think? Does anyone have any ideas about good ways of |
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>'refreshing' my gentoo system? All suggestions appreciated :-) |
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>Thanks! |
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Well, what I would do is: |
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% etc-update |
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(to make sure that there aren't any cruft files lying around) |
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and then: |
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% emerge -eD world |
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to rebuild the entire system. |
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You could also do: |
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emerge --newuse -D world |
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to just upgrade things that haven't been built since you change USE |
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options. |
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or if you have gentoolkit installed, |
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revdep-rebuild |
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to verify that all packages have all the correct dependancies. |
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Steve |
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