On Wednesday 06 Jul 2011 12:38:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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/
Very useful Neil, thanks! Most of these files had lockfiles hanging around, or some changed config file. -- Regards, Mick
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