On Sunday 9 February 2025 23:46:08 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > It was mentioned a while ago in a thread that running perl-cleaner > --reallyall on occasion is a good idea. It makes sure everything is > stable.
Well, not everything, but everything related to files linked against older versions of libperl. > So, it hit me, I haven't ran it in a while, month or so. When > I did, it re-emerged a lot of packages like it usually does. Then it > listed a large list of leftover files. Were all these files found in a directory belonging to an older version of perl? For example, the current perl is /usr/lib64/perl5, so you'll have files like: /usr/lib64/libperl.so.5.40.0 and symlinks to it from your perl5 directory, e.g.: ~ $ ls -la /usr/lib64/perl5/5.40/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.so.5.40 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jan 19 11:55 /usr/lib64/perl5/5.40/x86_64-linux/ CORE/libperl.so.5.40 -> ../../../../libperl.so.5.40.0 > If it were just a few, I'd use > equery and such to see what belonged to what and if it was safe to > remove them. Thing is, it is quite a long list. It could take me days > to check each one. I found a old thread that talked about a delete > option. I check the man page, that option is no longer listed so I > guess it is no longer available. > > So, what is the correct way to deal with these and be safe? Obviously I > don't want to remove something the system needs. I also don't want a > growing list of files that are no longer needed hanging around either. If the files you're concerned about are under a directory belonging to a previous version of perl , e.g. perl4, then you can remove the lot after you run perl-cleaner. > While at it, is there a way to remove any files that doesn't belong to a > package? A system wide clean up if you will. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) There was some old script to remove cruft, but I have never used it. I think as Gentoo matured over the years, files left behind when you uninstall a package have become less likely. There is 'qfile -o ...' you can use with 'find' to identify any orphan files left in your system, but it assumes you know what types of files to search for, e.g. "*.la". Have a look at the examples in the man page, to see how it can be used.
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