[gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

[gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

[Thufir]

Why does depclean "want" to remove the pwdb package?  Should I just
put it in the world so that depclean goes past it?

localhost ~ #
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # emerge  --depclean  --ask

*** WARNING ***  Depclean may break link level dependencies.  Thus, it is
*** WARNING ***  recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` (from
*** WARNING ***  app-portage/gentoolkit) in order to detect such breakage.
*** WARNING ***
*** WARNING ***  Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious
*** WARNING ***  mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always
*** WARNING ***  be kept.  They can be manually added to this set with
*** WARNING ***  `emerge --noreplace <atom>`.  Packages that are listed in
*** WARNING ***  package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by
*** WARNING ***  depclean, even if they are part of the world set.
*** WARNING ***
*** WARNING ***  As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages
*** WARNING ***  unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved.  As a
*** WARNING ***  consequence, it is often necessary to run
*** WARNING ***  `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to depclean.

Calculating dependencies... done!


>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:

 sys-libs/pwdb
    selected: 0.62
   protected: none
     omitted: none

 sys-kernel/livecd-kernel
    selected: 1
   protected: none
     omitted: none

>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.

Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No] n

Quitting.

Packages installed:   565
Packages in world:    14
Packages in system:   55
Unique package names: 565
Required packages:    563
Number to remove:     2
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # date
Sun Jul 15 04:44:29 UTC 2007
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ #


pwdb:  <http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?pwdb-0.62>


thanks,

Thufir
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Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

[Crayon Shin Chan]

On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:48, Thufir wrote:
> Why does depclean "want" to remove the pwdb package? 

Maybe because it's no longer needed? FWIW I've removed it from two of my 
systems with no ill effects - so far.

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Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 7/15/07, Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:48, Thufir wrote:
> > Why does depclean "want" to remove the pwdb package?
>
> Maybe because it's no longer needed? FWIW I've removed it from two of my
> systems with no ill effects - so far.


I did the same on my main system.  I worried about it, of course, but there
have been no problems in the two weeks or so since I did that.
Let it go.

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Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

[Thufir]

On 7/15/07, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/15/07, Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:48, Thufir wrote:
> > > Why does depclean "want" to remove the pwdb package?
> >
> > Maybe because it's no longer needed? FWIW I've removed it from two of my
> > systems with no ill effects - so far.
>
> I did the same on my main system.  I worried about it, of course, but there
> have been no problems in the two weeks or so since I did that.
> Let it go.
[...]

Thanks, guys.  What about that kernel?  I'm thinking it's probably not
the kernel I'm using, but I'm not positive.


thanks,

Thufir
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Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 7/15/07, Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/15/07, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/15/07, Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:48, Thufir wrote:
> > > > Why does depclean "want" to remove the pwdb package?
> > >
> > > Maybe because it's no longer needed? FWIW I've removed it from two of
> my
> > > systems with no ill effects - so far.
> >
> > I did the same on my main system.  I worried about it, of course, but
> there
> > have been no problems in the two weeks or so since I did that.
> > Let it go.
> [...]
>
> Thanks, guys.  What about that kernel?  I'm thinking it's probably not
> the kernel I'm using, but I'm not positive.
>
>
> thanks,


gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 for me.

++ kevin




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Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

[Thufir]

On 7/15/07, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Thanks, guys.  What about that kernel?  I'm thinking it's probably not
> > the kernel I'm using, but I'm not positive.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
>
> gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 for me.
[...]

<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml> to get that information?


thanks,

Thufir
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Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 7/15/07, Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/15/07, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Thanks, guys.  What about that kernel?  I'm thinking it's probably not
> > > the kernel I'm using, but I'm not positive.
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks,
> >
> > gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 for me.
> [...]
>
> <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml> to get that information?


No.

I use the "uname -s -r -v" command.  On my system, this says:
Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r8-kosmanor #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 7 09:40:04 PDT 2007

Which tells me the running kernel is gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8, with
tailoring for my preferences ("kosmanor"), the second compile (at the date
and time given), including SMP and pre-emptive scheduling,

You can also peek at your boot loader configuration.  In my case it's
/boot/grub/menu.lst.  You should be able to figure out which is your default
kernel.
You can also look at the output of "eix -I sources", the "-I" holding the
output to packages that have at least one version installed.

++ kevin

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