On 06/01/2016 03:56 AM, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Christopher J. Camisa wrote: >>> On 06/01/2016 02:28 AM, Dale wrote: >>>> Howdy, >>>> >>>> I suspect there may be more people than me wondering about this one. I >>>> have quite a few entries in /etc/portage files, especially keywords. >>>> I'd like to know if there is a tool that deletes no longer needed >>>> entries itself. I been using eix-test-obsolete but doing it manually >>>> can take quite a while. Is there a tool that I can run and it clean out >>>> those files itself instead of me doing it one line at a time? I figure >>>> there has to be someone out there that has already done this, surely. >>>> >>>> Anyone have any info on such a beast? >>>> >>>> Thanks much. >>>> >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> :-) :-) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Hi Dale, >>> >>> You're looking for enalyze from app-portage/gentoolkit. >>> Have a look in the manual, ENALYZE(1) for usage. >>> >>> DESCRIPTION >>> Enalyze is a collection of modules for analyzing the state >>> of installed Gentoo packages for USE flags or >>> keywords used for installation, and their current masking status. >>> It can also optionally (re)generate new >>> /etc/portage/package.* files. >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> -Camisa >> >> That looks veeeerrryyyy interesting. That just may be what I need. >> It seems to do it backwards from what I was expecting but I'll give >> it a shot, once I read how to use it. ;-) >> >> Thanks much. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > > > OK. Did a little reading on this and gave it a test run. It doesn't > generate quite what I was expecting. This is a sample of what it > generates. > > > kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kde-gtk-config ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kdecoration ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kdeplasma-addons ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kgamma ~amd64 > kde-plasma/khotkeys ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kinfocenter ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kmenuedit ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kscreen ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kscreenlocker ~amd64 > kde-plasma/ksshaskpass ~amd64 > kde-plasma/ksysguard ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kwallet-pam ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kwayland-integration ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kwin ~amd64 > kde-plasma/kwrited ~amd64 > kde-plasma/libkscreen ~amd64 > > > This is a example of what I currently have in my keyword file. > > > # required by kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.6.4::gentoo > # required by @selected > # required by @world (argument) > =kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.6.4 ~amd64 > # required by kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.6.4::gentoo > # required by kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.6.4::gentoo > # required by @selected > # required by @world (argument) > =kde-frameworks/karchive-5.22.0 ~amd64 > # required by kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.6.4::gentoo > # required by @selected > # required by @world (argument) > =kde-plasma/kinfocenter-5.6.4 ~amd64 > # required by kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.6.4::gentoo > # required by kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.6.4::gentoo > # required by @selected > # required by @world (argument) > =kde-plasma/kwin-5.6.4 ~amd64 > > > The output of what emerge gives includes a version. The enalyze > program seems to leave that out which may lead to upgrades that I'm > not looking for yet. > > What I was hoping for, something that would for example see that > plasma-workspace-5.6.4 is either no longer installed or no longer > keyworded and can be removed from the file and then remove it. > Honestly, I'm not a scripting guru but I sort of think it would be a > hard thing to do given that basically every line would have to be > checked. Also, the commented part above it would be deleted to in a > ideal world. That to would be difficult since not all lines have > those above it. > > Hmmmm. Gonna see what else it can do. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Hi Dale,
Try again, but this time use the --exact option to your invocation
on the command line.
Kind Regards,
-Camisa
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