From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kivdy-0002p1-0e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C364AE0867; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D666E0867 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EDBFB4AFD for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.808 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.808 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.791, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZKZtvwbHfKN5 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1B9B400A for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kivdg-00042R-Df for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:32 +0000 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:32 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <384d42da0809242105k67b8e3feja376df615350a10c@mail.gmail.com> <6142e6140809250327o18816ed0r570f9adef20511ab@mail.gmail.com> <6142e6140809250851r45d271b2y600fcddd64cd2550@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 7517c8a4-6fd7-4999-9179-109d1de42b50 X-Archives-Hash: 7dfeddfc8229fad2fb94b4ca3c4e6c42 Daniel Pielmeier googlemail.com> writes: > > to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have stated above? > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172611 > Daniel Hello Daniel, What you have told me looks interesting. However, for now, I'm going to clean up the critical systems with a more brute force approach, as Neil has suggested. I cannot afford to wack these systems nor have them reinstalling tons of software...... However, I am going to get workstation a non-critical workstation, polluted the world file and try the python scripts a few times, to develop an opinion or hack on it a bit. udept seems like a good idea, it's ashame it has been orphaned. I'm looking for a more stable (supported) solution for the long term. udept does not seem to offer that, unless somebody picks it up to maintain it. Who knows maybe one of the devs is working on a better, long term solution. Surely many folks would benefit from a formal, systematic approach to cleaning the world file? I know every now and then, when a gentoo workstation gives me fits, I just emerge and unemerge things until it's happy (while multitasking too much). Often this leads to a polluted world file....... because I do not follow closely to the process details (distracted) during the repair-episode. Thanks for the input. James