On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:37:54 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > It produces false positives and you need to look at the output for
> > each affected package, but do you know a better way of detecting
> > corruption of installed files?  
> 
> I wasn't familiar with qcheck (yes, I know, I lead a sheltered life!)
> but adding --verbose does not reveal additional info.  When you say
> "look at the output", do you mean the output of emerge -1aDv <package> ?

The -B option restricts the output to just the names of packages with
changed files. If you feed this list back to qcheck with just the -T
option, you'll get a list of affected files.

qcheck -aBT >foo
qcheck -T $(cat foo)

You may want to pipe the output from the second through grep -v /etc/


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