On Monday 08 June 2009 22:54:08 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine > > who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is > > > > for I in /usr/lib/*.so.* ; do equery belongs $I ; done > > qfile --orphans /usr/lib/*.so.* > > or, maybe cleaner > > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) > > which avoids checking all the symlinks. > > Then run symlinks remove any dangling links left over.
Thanks, that's just the biscuit :-) I really need to start using those q* commands. After 5 years on gentoo, I reckon it's about time... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
