From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EekNJ-0002yr-4w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:28:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAN2RTtr010553; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:27:29 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAN2NMqS020209 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:23:22 GMT Received: from [35.9.44.36] (guarana [35.9.44.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAN2NMSp019732 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:23:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4383D299.7070309@egr.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:23:21 -0500 From: warnera6 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask? References: <4383D172.9090902@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4383D172.9090902@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 93d150e5-8cae-404d-ac9a-e6669824be3d X-Archives-Hash: 53a357c681e466ce93f3a806f2a07c73 Luis F. Araujo wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A few days ago i glanced over package.mask , and i was surprised > about how many non-existent ebuild/packages entries are there. > > So, i wrote a script to try to get a list of those orphaned entries, > and it looks like there are more than 400 packages/ebuilds which are still > listed in p.m but that don't exist in the tree anymore. > (A bunch of them from the KDE herd btw) > > *Please* take a look at http://dev.gentoo.org/~araujo/old_package.mask , > for the list of these non-existent ebuilds/packages, in case you have > forgotten something > in there. I'd like if every person takes care of their own entries if > possible. If not, i *personally* could go slowly removing the entries, > along with other > people willing to help, or any other _better_ suggestion to deal with this? > > I *of course* haven't checked all of the entry generated by the script > manually , > so there might probably exist packages which are indeed correct, so > please re-check > before doing something. > > I also noticed (slight detail) that there are a couple of recent entries > at the bottom > of this file, isn't the policy to have new entries added at the top? , > is there any special > reason for this? > > Ok, that's all for now! > > Looks like something that could be added to the "list of unstable ebuilds" deal that also gets sent here, simple to script... ;) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list