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From: Urs Schutz <u.schutz@×××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:01:42
Message-Id: 20111101150015.4f571d8f@bluewin.ch
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 04:45:25 +0100
2 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > I know of three commands to check the consistency of a
7 > Gentoo system:
8 >
9 >
10 > eix-sync && emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update
11 > --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean
12 > revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v
13 >
14 > of course, one has to remove the -p and -v flags after
15 > checking the putput of the commands.
16 >
17 > What else can be checked and should be checked from time
18 > to time or after each update?
19 >
20 > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
21 >
22 > Best regards,
23 > mcc
24 >
25
26 Beside the already mentioned ones:
27
28 Check and clean the portage logs, can be done with
29 elogv
30
31 Update the packets config files, can be done with
32 cfg-update -u
33
34 Clean up old source files (saves some space, but deletes
35 old unused sources)
36 eclean-dist -d -p
37
38 Check for Gentoo Linux Security Advices
39 glsa-check -t all
40
41 Have a look at the Gentoo management news
42 eselect news list
43 eselect news read xx
44
45 Regards
46 Urs

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