Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Saturday 09 September 2006 05:33, Dale wrote: > >> What would be a good way of finding files that were not deleted when >> something was upgraded/unmerged? I thought depclean was different from >> what I wanted to say but it got the ball rolling. >> > > Depclean is to remove packages that are no longer in or a dependency of > something in your world file. > > >> Last part, zoooooooom, right over my head I think. Let's see if I get >> this right. emerge put a file in there, something, me maybe, changed >> something so it leaves it alone. That right?? >> > > Yep. > > So just to illustrate: > > # touch /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/bugsummary.vim > > # emerge --unmerge -va gentoo-syntax > >>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: >>>> > [SNIP] > >>>> Unmerging app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20051221-r1... >>>> > No package files given... Grabbing a set. > [SNIP] > <<< obj /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/newinitd.vim > <<< obj /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/neweselect.vim > <<< obj /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/newebuild.vim > <<< obj /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/gentoo-common.vim > --- !mtime obj /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/bugsummary.vim > [SNIP] > --- !empty dir /usr/share/vim > <<< dir /usr/share/doc/gentoo-syntax-20051221-r1 > > All the things that has a "<<<" are actually removed. The things with "---" > are not removed for the reason given in the following column. Since I > touch'ed /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/bugsummary.vim it wasn't removed > with the reason: "!mtime" which means the last modified time has been altered > after it was installed. The reason "!empty" is the reason for dirs which > aren't empty (others packages have installed files in the same dirs...). > > After the unmerge is complete the only way to know is that the files no > longer > belong to any package. Of course when I remerge this package in a few minutes > the files will be overwritten and the mtime will be correct again... > > Hope that makes it clear. > > So basically if I mess with a file and then unmerge the program it belongs to, I have to remember which ones I messed with and delete them myself? If I unmerge this in a console and can't read all the "-- !mtime" as they roll by, I'm stuck with orphan files on my rig? This needs a fix but I wouldn't want to be the dev to figure this one out. ;-)
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