[gentoo-user] Orphan packages

[gentoo-user] Orphan packages

[Leonid Podolny]

Hi,
I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't
find any such discussions.
Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed
packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to
have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that
belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to get a
list of those packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan packages

[Justin]

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Leonid Podolny schrieb:
> Hi,
> I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't
> find any such discussions.
> Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed
> packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to
> have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that
> belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to get a
> list of those packages.
>
>   
You can use eix for that. I don't know the exact syntax but it works.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan packages

[Dale]

Leonid Podolny wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't
> find any such discussions.
> Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed
> packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to
> have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that
> belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to get a
> list of those packages.
>
>
>   

emerge --depclean -p and make sure everything looks OK.  If it does,
remove the -p option.  OK means it is not removing something you need. 
If it mentions removing some version of python, make sure you have ran
python-updater.  There may be others so look carefully.

Also, I run revdep-rebuild -i afterwards just to make sure.

Dale

:-)  :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Orphan packages

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Dale wrote:
> Leonid Podolny wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't
>> find any such discussions.
>> Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed
>> packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to
>> have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that
>> belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to get a
>> list of those packages.
> 
> emerge --depclean -p and make sure everything looks OK.

That's not what it does :P  depclean only removes packages that are not 
in world and are not a dependency of another package.  You can emerge 
package foo from overlay bar and then remove the overlay, but depclean 
won't clean it because it's still in world.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Orphan packages

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>> Leonid Podolny wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't
>>> find any such discussions.
>>> Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed
>>> packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to
>>> have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that
>>> belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to
>>> get a
>>> list of those packages.
>>
>> emerge --depclean -p and make sure everything looks OK.
>
> That's not what it does :P  depclean only removes packages that are
> not in world and are not a dependency of another package.  You can
> emerge package foo from overlay bar and then remove the overlay, but
> depclean won't clean it because it's still in world.
>
>
>

I missed the overlay part.  I thought he was talking about removing
dependencies of a removed package that nothing else needed.

Sorry for the confusion.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Orphan packages

[Leonid Podolny]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>> Leonid Podolny wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't
>>> find any such discussions.
>>> Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed
>>> packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to
>>> have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that
>>> belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to get a
>>> list of those packages.
>>
>> emerge --depclean -p and make sure everything looks OK.
> 
> That's not what it does :P  depclean only removes packages that are not
> in world and are not a dependency of another package.  You can emerge
> package foo from overlay bar and then remove the overlay, but depclean
> won't clean it because it's still in world.
> 
> 
Exactly :)
Thanks for the pointer to eix, its man page says that
"eix-test-obsolete" does exactly that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan packages

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:17:16 +0200, Leonid Podolny wrote:

> Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed
> packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to
> have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that
> belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to get a
> list of those packages.

grep <overlayname> /var/db/pkg/*/*/repository


-- 
Neil Bothwick

A woman walked into a bar and asked the barman for a large double
entendre, so he gave her one.

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