Re: [gentoo-server] glsa-check and unused packages

["W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

use "glsa-check -f package" on each offender first.  It will safely
remove the bad packages. 

Due to its history of breaking systems, depclean should be left until
absolutely necessary.

BillK
 
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 15:35 -0700, Ben Munat wrote:
> Owen Ford wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 11:49 -0700, Ben Munat wrote:
> > 
> >>First, glsa-check claims that I'm vulnerable to 200412-02 and 200505-01. The first is 
> >>pdflib and the second is various horde packages. However, I have the current versions of 
> >>these installed -- the versions that the glsa says I need to solve the vulnerability. So, 
> >>why would glsa-check say I'm vulnerable when I'm not?
> > 
> > 
> > There are probably versions of those packages slotted.  I use emerge -Cp
> > package to see which are installed.
> > 
> 
> Very good... exactly the problem. Thanks.
> 
> As for dealing with all my orphaned packages, I'm figuring on going through the output of 
> "emerge --depclean" and unmerging everything that comes up with no dependencies under 
> "equery depends" and is something that I don't think I'll use. Does that sound reasonable?
> 
> Oh, and I'm assuming that "equery depends" just checks for installed packages that depend 
> on the given package... anyone know any way to check a package's dependency against the 
> entire portage tree?
> 
> b
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