Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 08 June 2009 22:54:08 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine
>>> who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is
>>>
>>> for I in /usr/lib/*.so.* ; do equery belongs $I ; done
>>>       
>> qfile --orphans /usr/lib/*.so.*
>>
>> or, maybe cleaner
>>
>> qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
>>
>> which avoids checking all the symlinks.
>>
>> Then run symlinks remove any dangling links left over.
>>     
>
> Thanks, that's just the biscuit :-)
>
> I really need to start using those q* commands. After 5 years on gentoo, I 
> reckon it's about time...
>
>   

Careful, it will end up like etcat and the rest.  You learn them and
start to use them, then they go away and you have to start over again.

Dale

:-)  :-)