From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RLEEZ-0005pO-R0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:18:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51FFD21C13E; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 13:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F8021C130 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 13:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk27 with SMTP id 27so7212955qyk.19 for ; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:16:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dBl5vvldbgX4rPguwGIEPR+LJjftd8qNx+BgBx8BGWc=; b=m4B7GpRK8Sqkjq7ZATtRKSKcU/lKL3VW+S9IfiUn3h2SHMsQLH8pfwL16reh7/B/sK ArdOAbJ9b7P7DTO3hU5UmCloRlPGGdLNdV5obPlGoR6e4vgT+xqhyvvguN7jWxUQif0o ksYrvgnuMgTDA3hWH8qTej7saFNCByaCdyYZg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.12.69 with SMTP id w5mr3869696obb.31.1320153410039; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:16:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.149.33 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 06:16:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111101034525.GE28043@solfire> References: <20111101034525.GE28043@solfire> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 06:16:50 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9258f7ee-60bc-49c3-99cc-1bcf1e643c74 X-Archives-Hash: cdff7699eaae1f6d2c874104971c7ed5 On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:45 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: > > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0eix-sync && emerge --color=3Dn -p -v --newuse --update --dee= p world > =C2=A0 =C2=A0emerge -p -v --depclean > =C2=A0 =C2=A0revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v > > of course, one has to remove the -p and -v flags after checking the > putput of the commands. > > What else can be checked and should be checked from time to time or > after each update? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > > Best regards, > mcc eix-test-obsolete -d to check your portage file setups. I think it's quite helpful for 'mostly stable' systems like I run. I've never seen much advantage to the -c or -C options myself. - Mark