automatically unmerge older package release?

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plm · Post by **plm** » Sun Apr 14, 2002 5:53 am

When I merge, say some-pkg-1.1-r3, the previous release remains installed too. Even using pkg-clean, supposed to find all doubly merged packages, doesn't find it (it only finds and unmerges double major releases).

Is there some flag to emerge that unmerges all older releases automatically after it has merged a newer version (--update)?

fghellar · Post by **fghellar** » Sun Apr 14, 2002 6:19 am

I don't know if it can currently be done automatically, but, after installing the newer version, you can remove all previous versions by doing

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emerge unmerge \<some-pkg-1.1-r3

This will unmerge all versions of some-pkg previous to 1.1-r3. That \ is required to escape the <.

tkdack · Post by **tkdack** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 4:19 am

IIRC with the new versions of portage you can do:

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emerge --clean package

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emerge --clean --update world

There is also the pkg-clean app that is part of the gentoolkit package.