RE: [Cooker] removing unneeded packages (e.g. old libraries)
> > On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 22:41, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Careful ... the name differences are coz some packages require that > > specific version of libgal! rpm -e package will either do it or error > > off coz of dependencies. > > That's what I'm looking for. Something to determine which packages are > no longer required by any other packages, and let me decide if I want to > remove them or not. > This finds packages no longer in distribution (which is not quite the same as "no longer required by any package"): for i in $(rpm -qa); do zcat /var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.* | grep @info@ | grep -q $i || echo $i done I agree that urpmi has all information to do it; so urpmi --remove-unneeded wuold be just fine. -andrej
Re: [Cooker] removing unneeded packages (e.g. old libraries)
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 22:41, William Kenworthy wrote: > Careful ... the name differences are coz some packages require that > specific version of libgal! rpm -e package will either do it or error > off coz of dependencies. That's what I'm looking for. Something to determine which packages are no longer required by any other packages, and let me decide if I want to remove them or not. -- Steve Fox http://k-lug.org
Re: [Cooker] removing unneeded packages (e.g. old libraries)
Careful ... the name differences are coz some packages require that specific version of libgal! rpm -e package will either do it or error off coz of dependencies. BillK On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 12:13, Steve Fox wrote: > Does anyone know of a way using the urpmX tools to remove old packages > like libraries? Justification: I just realized that I had 6 versions of > libgal installed. It would sure be nice is urpme could generate a list > of packages that nothing depends on, and then allow you to choose which > ones to remove or remove all. > > Anyone else like this? Can I beg François to add something like this? > > -- > > Steve Fox > http://k-lug.org > >
