Clean out your world file

Phenax · l33t Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 972

Wow man, I'm pretty sad that I just now discovered it. Good tool!

Gremo · Guru Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 450

what does it mean?

dpetka2001 · l33t Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 804

could someone provide with a link to download the latest version of dep??

ecatmur · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject:

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toskala · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject:

edcatmur, do you have an idea if the springcleaning option works? i mean does it leave a working system behind :-)

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ecatmur · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject:

Well, it should work - however I can't guarantee that it won't break things, say if it wants to remove older versions of gcc, breaking g++ compiled programs.
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toskala · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject:

what i saw is that it wanted to remove libwww, which i somehow need, at least qdepends says so.

can i somehow tell the tool "do what you think you should do but please dont remove gcc and libwww"?
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ecatmur · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject:

Well, qdepends has its own dependency engine, which is again different from the portage dependency engine. Any idea what it is qdepends says depends on libwww?

As for gcc, if you want a specific version to stay then you should tell portage to keep it around. dep doesn't do special cases; that's bad design.
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toskala · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

qdpends -Q libwww says the following:

ecatmur · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject:

All those packages depend on dev-perl/libwww-perl, not libwww. Evidently qdepends is broken.
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toskala · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject:

ah, i could have imagined this myself, thanks for your hint!
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STEDevil · Apprentice Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 156

Im really glad someone is doing the things that IMO should be in and fully working in portage itself

However, running latest (version "I Just Know It'll End Up Sounding Lame"

), Im getting a bit worried about some of the things that is to be cleaned out doing a

# dep -dp

Several things looked a bit suspicous to me, but the below must surely be an error...

x11-base/xorg-x11
selected: 7.1
protected: none
omitted: none

Also
# dep -P
cleaned out the higher/newer version of several packages (which of course was put right back in by a emerge world -uDvp)

Further, when doing a dep -E to clean out the /etc/portage/package.* files, Im getting some strange results eg in .keywords having

~x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.1.1 ~x86

gives

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ecatmur · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

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fredor · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:21 pm Post subject:

Many thanks to ecatmur for 'udept', an excellent 'cruft' remover.
Using 'dep -E' with 'package.unmask', 'package.keywords, etc in seperate folders, the program finds redundant items but fails to remove them and terminates with the word 'interrupted'.
I presume it works fine with 'package.*' in files as they used to be, but requires updating to deal with 'package.*' as directories. Is this the case?
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fredor · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject:

With the latest 'portage', 'dep -as' shows 'Unknown USE component pkgprofile' and 'Unknown USE component pkginternal' but everything works fine.
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hielvc · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:04 am Post subject:

Ed it happens with portage 2.1.2_rc1 and 2.1.2_rc1-r1. With portage-2.1.2_pre2-r9 dep -wp runs with out hughmongus string of

FuzzyRay · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 79

The "Unknown USE component" errors are due to the newer versions of portage implementing support for specifying default USE flags on a per package basis. (See Bug #61732)

Anyhow, I have released udept-0.5.99.0.2.95-r1 which will stop the errors from being printed. All the patched version does is add placeholders for the new portage functionality.

Varuna · Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject:

When I run dep -s, I get messages such as:

red-wolf76 · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject:

First, let me say that this script is da bomb!

Is there a way for it to ignore java? If I let it purge old stuff, it always wants to kick out the 1.4* sun-jdk that needs to be installed as per the java update guide...

Otherwise, I'm really, really thankful! I used to do it all by hand. Oh, the sheer agony!

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annunaki2k2 · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:17 am Post subject:

Hi ecatmur,

I seem to have some spurious output when running the dep script - but I'm not sure if it effects the overall outcome.
I ran a dep -w --pretend, and here is a sample of the output:

crazy-bee · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 170

Damn, thanks! I wish I had discovered that YEARS ago.