Re: [Fink-users] link trouble, qt3 , more data

[Dave Vasilevsky]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 7:28 AM, tom sgouros wrote:

I am in the middle of upgrading from 10.2 to 10.4. My intention was to delete the whole /sw tree and start fresh, but the warnings on the fink page told me that bootstrapping didn't work with the version of XCode I

got on my install disk.  I already know of some confused dependencies
that keep update-all from working.  I wish there were a command like
'fink clear-the-decks' that erased everything except whatever fink
itself needs to run.

list_nonessential | sudo xargs dpkg -r



Dave


##### list_nonessential #####
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Fink::Config;
use Fink::Status;

(my $basepath = `which fink`) =~ s/bin.*//s;
Fink::Config->new_with_path("$basepath/etc/fink.conf");

my @exclude = qw(apt apt-shlibs);
my $status = new Fink::Status;
my $list = new Fink::Status->list();
for my $pkg (sort keys %$list) {
    next unless $status->query_package($pkg);
    next if exists $status->{$pkg}{essential};
    next if grep { $pkg eq $_ } @exclude;
    print "$pkg\n";
}

I have a script that can help. Put the text at the end of this message in a file, call it 'list_nonessential' and make it executable (chmod +x list_nonessential). It will list every package you have installed that's not essential, so you can just pipe that info to dpkg: And then you'll be left with nothing but what fink really needs. Note that this can remove lots of packages, don't do it unless you're sure that's what you want!

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