Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote: Hi, I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any cruft. This has me confused: These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.23-r6 protected: none omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.23-r8 sys-libs/pwdb selected: 0.62 protected: none omitted: none dev-java/jakarta-regexp selected: 1.3-r4 protected: none omitted: none I get the gentoo-sources, no big deal. The java thing wouldn't exactly break my system either but the pwdb which pam depends on, well, wouldn't that be bad to remove? What's the deal? Remove it? Remove it and death will be painful and slow? o_O It's safe to delete. The pam_pwdb module is not used any more. There's a nice bug message in the ebuild that describes it. Did you follow the PAM Upgrade guide (URL in the ebuild) way back when? If so, just unmerge pwdb I'm not 100% sure if I did or not on the upgrade guide. I do update a couple times a week tho. If it has been a while, I may not remember it if I did. I do read the messages so if it was in there, I most likely did. Would have been cute to remove it tho and not be able to log back in. I learned the hard way to do a pretend first. Sort of make sure it is going to still work after words. Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-) Oh, still no DSL here. They been working on the box tho. Maybe soon. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?
Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Dale: I get the gentoo-sources, no big deal. The java thing wouldn't exactly break my system either but the pwdb which pam depends on, well, wouldn't that be bad to remove? What's the deal? Remove it? Remove it and death will be painful and slow? o_O Make a backup of the package with quickpkg, remove it, change to a different virtual terminal and try to login as normal user. If it still works, everything is fine. If not reinstall the package and make sure it ends up in your world file. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?
Hi, I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any cruft. This has me confused: These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.23-r6 protected: none omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.23-r8 sys-libs/pwdb selected: 0.62 protected: none omitted: none dev-java/jakarta-regexp selected: 1.3-r4 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Packages installed: 855 Packages in world:298 Packages in system: 52 Unique package names: 855 Required packages:852 Number to remove: 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends pwdb [ Searching for packages depending on pwdb... ] sys-libs/pam-0.99.9.0 (sys-libs/pwdb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery list pwdb [ Searching for package 'pwdb' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 (0) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends jakarta-regexp [ Searching for packages depending on jakarta-regexp... ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # I get the gentoo-sources, no big deal. The java thing wouldn't exactly break my system either but the pwdb which pam depends on, well, wouldn't that be bad to remove? What's the deal? Remove it? Remove it and death will be painful and slow? o_O Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote: Hi, I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any cruft. This has me confused: These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.23-r6 protected: none omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.23-r8 sys-libs/pwdb selected: 0.62 protected: none omitted: none dev-java/jakarta-regexp selected: 1.3-r4 protected: none omitted: none I get the gentoo-sources, no big deal. The java thing wouldn't exactly break my system either but the pwdb which pam depends on, well, wouldn't that be bad to remove? What's the deal? Remove it? Remove it and death will be painful and slow? o_O It's safe to delete. The pam_pwdb module is not used any more. There's a nice bug message in the ebuild that describes it. Did you follow the PAM Upgrade guide (URL in the ebuild) way back when? If so, just unmerge pwdb -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
