August 16, 2018 8:07 AM, "Andrew Udvare" <audv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> gcruft seems to have died off (https://www.google.com/search?q=gcruft > only returns ebuild results). I was using it quite a lot and wrote many > exception files. It's gone now with no way for my or anyone else's > ebuild to get the original source. I did preserve it though, here: > https://gitlab.com/Tatsh/gcruft > > I wrote a replacement in C named gcrud. It only needs GLib2 installed to > work. It's much faster than gcruft ever was. The code is here: > > https://gitlab.com/Tatsh/gcrud > https://github.com/Tatsh/gcrud > > I am placing preference in GitLab for issues and merge requests, but I > will accept PRs from GitHub. > > The whitelist https://gitlab.com/Tatsh/gcrud/blob/master/whitelist.c is > currently hard-coded and limited but the results are satisfactory for > now in my use cases. > > Type use case: > > sudo ./gcrud | sort -u > out.log > > Examine out.log for things you can delete. There are absolutely zero > calls to delete files from the machine in my code and never will be any > kind of automation support. > > If anyone tries it out I certainly would like to see your output and get > some bug reports or suggestions. The main feature planned is reading > from a configuration file for exact file paths and regexs. > > -- > Andrew Hi, So I tested it, and I was surprised how many /etc files weren't put into whitelist. Actually, most of /etc shouldn't be suggested for deletion if the packages are still installed. Portage stuff like repositories could be whitelisted in a dynamic manner, or at least bing able to tell what directorie(s) are used to store them. I also caught some wrongly listed files because of the multilib system with /lib symlink. For example, dhcpcd declared /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks, thus the realpath /lib64/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks was listed in the removal suggestion. This should be fixed with profile 17.1 The log is so huge at the moment it is useless for me :/ % wc -l out.log 461575 out.log -- Corentin “Nado” Pazdera
