[gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[Joseph]

Recently I found out that I had an old package "avifile" installed on my
system but it was no longer in portage. 

How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer
available in portage (so I can remove them)?

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Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[Ryan Tandy]

Joseph wrote:
> Recently I found out that I had an old package "avifile" installed on my
> system but it was no longer in portage. 
> 
> How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer
> available in portage (so I can remove them)?
> 

/usr/sbin/emaint --check
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Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[Teresa and Dale]

Ryan Tandy wrote:

> Joseph wrote:
>
>> Recently I found out that I had an old package "avifile" installed on my
>> system but it was no longer in portage.
>> How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer
>> available in portage (so I can remove them)?
>>
>
> /usr/sbin/emaint --check


Well, I thought that was neat until I got this:

> root@smoker / # emaint --check
> usage: emaint [options] all | world
>
> Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world
> file.  Future versions will integrate other portage check-and-fix
> tools and provide a single interface to system health checks.
>
> emaint: error: Incorrect number of arguments
> root@smoker / #


In case it matters:

> root@smoker / # emerge -pv portage
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.54-r2  -build +doc (-selinux) 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> root@smoker / #


What's up with that?

Dale
:-)  :-) 


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Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[Ryan Tandy]

Teresa and Dale wrote:
>> root@smoker / # emaint --check
>> usage: emaint [options] all | world
>>
>> Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world
>> file.  Future versions will integrate other portage check-and-fix
>> tools and provide a single interface to system health checks.
>>
>> emaint: error: Incorrect number of arguments
>> root@smoker / #
> 
> 

/me smacks head

# emaint --check world

I'll try to remember, next time, to check that I'm giving the correct 
command *before* hitting send.

At this point, emaint can only check that packages *in your world file* 
are still in the portage tree.  Future versions will be more 
comprehensive.  emaint --help and man emaint for details.
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Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[Teresa and Dale]

Ryan Tandy wrote:

> Teresa and Dale wrote:
>
>>> root@smoker / # emaint --check
>>> usage: emaint [options] all | world
>>>
>>> Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world
>>> file.  Future versions will integrate other portage check-and-fix
>>> tools and provide a single interface to system health checks.
>>>
>>> emaint: error: Incorrect number of arguments
>>> root@smoker / #
>>
>>
>>
>
> /me smacks head
>
> # emaint --check world
>
> I'll try to remember, next time, to check that I'm giving the correct
> command *before* hitting send.
>
> At this point, emaint can only check that packages *in your world
> file* are still in the portage tree.  Future versions will be more
> comprehensive.  emaint --help and man emaint for details.


I was wondering if I was behind a version or ahead one.  It happens.  No
worries.

Dale
:-)  :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[Joseph]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 20:57 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> 
> > root@smoker / # emerge -pv portage
> >
> > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.54-r2  -build +doc (-selinux) 0
> kB
> >
> > Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> > root@smoker / #
> 
> 
> What's up with that? 

I keep my portage up to date every time there is an update.
For some reason an application "avifile" was left on my system but no
longer in portage. 
When I tried to run "revdep-rebuild" it gave me an error message, so I
was forced to remove it manually. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 02:17 schrieb ext Joseph:
> Recently I found out that I had an old package "avifile" installed on my
> system but it was no longer in portage.
>
> How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer
> available in portage (so I can remove them)?

It seems "emerge -a --depclean" is not broken anymore (I use 
portage-2.1_rc4-r2). Don't forget to run revdep-rebuild afterwards.

HTH...

	Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:17:46 -0600, Joseph wrote:

> How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer
> available in portage (so I can remove them)?

emerge -uavDN world should show them up. I get this on one machine

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies  ..... ..... ....
!!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
app-misc/jbidwatcher


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