Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:42:38 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: I have a small perl script, 'echanges', that determines the latest timestamp for installed packages; I find it very helpful to determine what my daily cron of 'emerge -uD world' has done. I will post it here if there is any interest; But

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:32:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but then you'd have to do some funky regexp stuff to find the last line showing gcc (in this case) and only show the lines after it. It was a lot easier to do this with find -newer. Here is a pooryly coded sloppy perl

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-23 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: genlop --list --date $(genlop --nocolor $1 | grep $1 | tail -n 1 | sed 's/^ *\(.*\) .*/\1/') What is it supposed to do? Here it gets genlops usage message. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-23 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's wrong with using a simple find command as I originally posted? Do you mean run against / or what? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:17:37 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with using a simple find command as I originally posted? Do you mean run against / or what? Against /var/db/pkg, where you'll find everything you have installed, complete with datestamps. See my first post in this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:15:31 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genlop --list --date $(genlop --nocolor $1 | grep $1 | tail -n 1 | sed 's/^ *\(.*\) .*/\1/') What is it supposed to do? Here it gets genlops usage message. you need to give the name of the package you want to compare against as

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-23 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:15:31 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genlop --list --date $(genlop --nocolor $1 | grep $1 | tail -n 1 | sed 's/^ *\(.*\) .*/\1/') What is it supposed to do? Here it gets genlops usage message. you need to give the name of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:09:47 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genlop --list --date $(genlop --nocolor $1 | grep $1 | tail -n 1 | sed 's/^ *\(.*\) .*/\1/') What is it supposed to do? Here it gets genlops usage message. you need to give the name of the package you want to compare

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 10:04 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:45:24 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: It would be cool if you could list every package based on when it was installed... so the stuff that is *reall* old can be freshened by a re-installation (with whatever my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:22:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: find /var/db/pkg -name '*.ebuild' ! -newer /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1/gcc-3.4.* to find all packages compiled before your last compiler update. There's also app-portage/genlop, quite nice for doing various things:

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:22:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: find /var/db/pkg -name '*.ebuild' ! -newer /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1/gcc-3.4.* to find all packages compiled before your last compiler update. There's also app-portage/genlop,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:37:35 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genlop is really nice, I use it all the time, but I don't think it has an option to find all packages installed after a particular package. It would be a nice variation on the --date option. Isn't the output in chrono order?

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:37:35 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: genlop is really nice, I use it all the time, but I don't think it has an option to find all packages installed after a particular package. It would be a nice variation on the --date

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi reader - At 2005-12-22, 11:37:35 you wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:22:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: find /var/db/pkg -name '*.ebuild' ! -newer /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1/gcc-3.4.* to find all packages compiled before your last

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:29:41 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I want to do is give my computer a complete clean-out. What I really CAN'T be bothered doing is a complete format and re-install! What you've described and what others have posted sounds more compiicated and time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Crute
On 12/18/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:29:41 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I want to do is give my computer a complete clean-out. What I really CAN'T be bothered doing is a complete format and re-install! There are some major advantages to

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-18 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are some major advantages to not re-installing. One is that all your settings remain untouched, whereas a reinstall requires you to reconfigure everything. Neil, You're going to have to slow down on all these usefull posts. I keep lots of stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:45:24 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: It would be cool if you could list every package based on when it was installed... so the stuff that is *reall* old can be freshened by a re-installation (with whatever my current compiler is) How about find /var/db/pkg -name '*.ebuild'

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-17 Thread reader
Tom Eastman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what I want to do is give my computer a complete clean-out. What I really CAN'T be bothered doing is a complete format and re-install! What you've described and what others have posted sounds more compiicated and time consuming than doing what you

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-17 Thread Tom Eastman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you've described and what others have posted sounds more compiicated and time consuming than doing what you CAN'T be bothered with. Also allows the opportunity to redo any partitioning scheme and swap setup that may have aged or not fill the bill any more.

[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-16 Thread Tom Eastman
Also on the subject of cleaning things out and keeping things somewhat up-to-date... what do you suppose would be a good way of seeing how old some packages are on your system? It would be cool if you could list every package based on when it was installed... so the stuff that is *reall* old can