On Friday 13 April 2007 01:59:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Provided you have gentoolkit something as simple as this works: > > > > # emerge -Cva $(equery -q list gentoo-sources | head -n -2) > > That only cleans out /usr/src, it's slightly different to what I use > (which rm's the directories first to speed things up) but does basically > the same. You also need to clear out /lib/modules and /boot with
True.
> Here's the script I use, which is guaranteed to work when it doesn't
> fail. When it does break, you can keep the pieces.
[SNIP]
> equery --quiet --nocolor list --duplicates gentoo-sources | awk '{print $1}'
> | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty emerge --unmerge &>/dev/null
Out of interest:
1) Why --duplicates (i.e. am I missing something ;).
2) Why the awk? Is there ever more than one column without --no-pipe ?
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Bo Andresen
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