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

[Sam Halicke <tuscantwelve@gmail.com>]

On Sep 10, 2005, at 4:37 PM, W.Kenworthy wrote:

> 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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Absolutely agreed with BillK. As I said in my first mail, I have had  
BAD experiences with --depclean. His solution is best. However, glsa- 
check --fix is not the most trustworthy of solutions. On a production  
system always check the ChangeLog and use your own best judgment.

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