Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 18 June 2019 16:12:32 BST Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I been working on the profile switch. I followed the directions in the >> news item up until the rm part in #12. I did a equery b for a few files >> in the two directories and it has files that equery shows belonging to >> packages. They are not orphans since they are owned. Here is a list of >> the files: >> >> root@fireball / # ls -al /lib32/ >> total 3956 > [snip ... x 3956 ] > >> root@fireball / # ls -al /usr/lib32/ >> total 257136 > [snip ... x 257136 ] > >> As one can see, some of those could be important. I noticed grub, >> nvidia, dracut and others that could cause issues if they failed. Is it >> really safe to just rm them or did I miss something? Do I need to do >> something else not mentioned in the news item for this? > Hmm ... having run 'unsymlink-lib --analyze/migrate/finish', switched profile > to 17.1 and then rebuilt toolchain and 'emerge -1v /lib32 /usr/lib32', I did > not have to manually remove those directories on 4 different systems so far > (I > think). That said I don't use an initramfs, but even if I did these are not > boot time dependencies. If you feel shakey about it you can rebuild dracut > before you need to use it again. > > You haven't missed a step by any chance? >
I actually saved the news item to a text file. As I was doing things, I would highlight what I was doing. At one point, I needed to logout and back in so I noted where to pick up so that I didn't miss anything. Even with doing that, it may be possible I missed something but I'd think it unlikely. I was expecting a few things to still be there but not that many or things that important. I did skip the parts about switching from 13 profiles to 17.1 since I was on 17.0. There was two in #10. I did rebuild gcc as listed tho. I might add, I also ran revdep-rebuild and it came back clean as well. I just wonder, if I remove those directories and then run revdep-rebuild, will it fix anything that is broken? I could just rename them so that I still have them if needed. Could this be because I still have a few things that are 32 bit? I'm running multilib here. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
