On Wednesday 07 September 2005 04:04, Ben Munat wrote: > Christopher Schwerdt wrote: > Curious. When I run "glsa-check -t all" and it comes back with 17 hits. > However, I have a script that runs "emerge sync" and "emerge -p world" > every night and another one that runs "emerge -puD world" every Saturday. I > am currently completely up to date on these except libxml wants to be > updated on "-uD". > > So, how do I wind up with 17 packages that need to be updated? Hmm, perhaps > these are all packages on my system that are neither in my world file nor > depdencies of stuff in my world file? Would that then make them orphaned? > And theoretically safe to delete? How does one find out if a specific > package is required by any other packages again? Only packages you explicitly emerge are recorded in the world profile (/var/lib/portage/world) dependencies are not. See the man pages for portage and emerge for more details.
HTH -- Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz) Operational Manager Gentoo Linux Security Team http://security.gentoo.org -- [email protected] mailing list
