Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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.
>
>
>   

Questions:  You knew I subscribed to this list.  lol  I ran the command:

find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs qfile -o

and I got a lot of hits.  I'm just going to post snippets of the
directories here.  It is a LONG list otherwise.

/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i486-linux/sys/
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric/
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyQt4/uic/
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Pyrex/Plex/
/usr/lib/portage/pym/

Some of those directories have additional directories in them but I
tried to hit the highlights.  Now to my questions.  Can these be
deleted?  Should one make certain these doesn't belong to some package
somewhere?  Should I update my backups BEFORE deleting these?  o_O

If you want the whole list, let me know.  Be forewarned tho, it is a
huge list even if I leave out the kernel sources for my old trusty 2.6.23.

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-)