On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> What do you guys think of this? Do you know of a good cruft removal >>>>> script? >>>>> >>>> Yep, there's quite good one in gentoo itself. >>>> >>>> Basically, you'll need to write a short config for it, consisting of >>>> lines like "cruft name", "cruft src uri" and a few more lines if you'll >>>> need to pass some extra parameters to configure/make/install. >>>> It'll build the package in a sandbox, then transfer it to destination, >>>> memorizing every change it did and preventing collisions and config >>>> overwrites. >>>> >>>> Just put that config script into an ebuild file and use portage to >>>> build it - as simple as it gets ;) >>>> >>> >>> I suppose you and Jesus are right, but what about cruft removal? Are >>> you saying Gentoo is 100% cruft-free? I've got a lot of junk in /etc >>> and especially ~/.* >>> >>> - Grant >>> >>> >>> >> > [snip] >> You have to clean out /etc and home directories yourself. > > Exactly. Nothing to help me along? I'll check out qfile, but I'm > surprised there isn't a good script for this. > > I'm the only one interested in a filesystem audit? > > - Grant > > >> Portage does do a good job of removing all the other files tho. If it >> puts it there, it will remove it if you unmerge a package. >> >> Dale
I think if you enable auditing in the kernel and emerge sys-process/audit you can see the access history of any file on your system. (doesn't help after the fact, but going forward...) At least then you could see which user/program did things to which files. I think even if a file is missing that you think should have been there you can do an audit search and see who deleted it. I've never tried it myself but that's how I understand it. I could be wrong. And it's not what you asked for, but for cleaning cruft out of distfiles i use eclean from app-portage/gentoolkit... works great. Whenever I'm running low on space I run it and it zaps a few gigs of unneeded stuff without deleting the distfiles of active packages. Paul
