On Saturday 18 October 2003 10:43 pm, Scott Chevalley wrote: > I've been updating my box using urpmi --auto-select for at least the past > two or three release cycles, constantly running cooker. I'm wondering if > there is anyway to use urpmi or rpm to give me a list of files that exist > on my system that don't belong to any installed packages, so I can clean > things up a little bit. > > I'm sure it would be much easier to just install from scratch, I just don't > feel like tracking down all the contrib and plf packages I've installed > over the years again. > Can msec do this? It tells me every day what files belonging to packages are changed on the system. Of course, it only knows about what files belong on the system, not the ones that don't. Perhaps a shell script can be written to compare the output from msec to the slocate database or something like that. -- /g
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