On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:54:08PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine > > who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is > > > > for I in /usr/lib/*.so.* ; do equery belongs $I ; done > > qfile --orphans /usr/lib/*.so.* > > or, maybe cleaner > > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) > > which avoids checking all the symlinks. > > Then run symlinks remove any dangling links left over.
Whoa, that's useful. Thanks for Neil for giving the solution, and to Alan for even asking the question. Having a box whose install dates to sep~ # head /var/log/emerge.log Started emerge on: Nov 03, 2002 *** emerge >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.7.9-r1 >=sys-apps/texinfo-4.2-r1 sys-devel/gettext >=sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.4 >=sys-devel/gcc-3.2 >>> emerge (1 of 7) sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.4.1 to / ::: completed emerge (1 of 7) sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.4.1 to / >>> emerge (2 of 7) sys-apps/texinfo-4.2-r5 to / This seems to be a worthy enterprise. BTW, though, $(find -H ...) will have too big a list. Perhaps better to do find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs qfile -o W -- When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. ~Penny Ward Moser Sortir en Pantoufles: up 913 days, 22:12