[gentoo-dev] Lost files in install

[gentoo-dev] Lost files in install

[Christian Hoenig]

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Hi,

I thought about posting this here rather than in the forums since I expect 
more feedback here.

What I did:
I made a list of all files of installed packages:
	for i in `qpkg --nocolors -v -I` ; 
		do qpkg -l --nocolors $i >> ~/installed ; 	
	done

Then I compared this list with selected dirs from my install to find those 
files which do not belong to a package:
for j in bin etc lib opt sbin usr ; 
	do for i in `find ${j}/` ; 
		do if ( ! grep -q "/${i}" ~/installed ) ; 
			then echo "/${i}" >> ~/notlinked_${j}; fi  ; 
		done ; 
	done

And I was shocket by the outcome!
The following is just a small excerpt from what I got (ie. from /usr ) :

	/usr/bin/fixpackages
	[snip]
	/usr/lib/find
	/usr/lib/find/code
	/usr/lib/find/bigram
	/usr/lib/find/frcode
	/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
	/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
	/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux/perllocal.pod
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/tgmath.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/personality.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/utsname.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/vt.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/klog.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/errno.ph
	/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/sys/xattr.ph
	[snip]
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/File::Spec::Win32.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/Test::Simple.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/Test::Tutorial.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/File::Spec::Cygwin.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/File::Spec::Epoc.3pm
	/usr/share/man/man3pm/File::Spec::Unix.3pm
	[snip]
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES/xmms.mo
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo
	/usr/share/locale/lv_LV/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo

This machine was installed very recently. 
All packages have been merged using emerge, no other method was used!

Now my question(s):
*	Is my logic behind those little bash scripts wrong?
*	Is portage running wild and missing those files which should be 
	part of packages?

So, I'm really interested in that point. 

take care, have fun
/christian
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Lost files in install

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Saturday 16 August 2003 02:38, Christian Hoenig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought about posting this here rather than in the forums since I expect
> more feedback here.

Well I personally would expect to find such files on my machine too. There are 
occasions where files get changed so they will not be autoremoved from 
portage. You could probably remove those files to a temporary dir. If 
everything still works, you are ok. But then again, the files should be 
recorded.

Paul

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Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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