Re: [gentoo-user] jre question
On (08/01/06 02:44), C. Beamer wrote: Hi all, I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download the binary from sun and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Prior to downloading, I unmerge (or thought I did), the previous installation of jre. However, after downloading the new version and checking /usr/portage/distfiles/, I discovered that there are about 3 other versions of sun-jre-bin in this directory. Can these be removed? Also, despite the unmerge, there are 3 other sun-jre-bin-version directories in /opt. Can these also be safely removed? Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, Yes, you can (i even do it ;-) remove old package sources. The single drawback is that if you need to downgrade (rarely happens) you have to download them again (i use distclean script). Check www.gentooexperimental.org for this and other usefull scripts. To your second question-just think (not sure) this are only parts of the old installs. As far as you removed (emerge -C) the previous packages, this isn't a great problem. Check the dirs content. HTH.Rumen pgpYlqNn0nDZl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] jre question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rumen Yotov wrote: On (08/01/06 02:44), C. Beamer wrote: Hi all, I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download the binary from sun and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Prior to downloading, I unmerge (or thought I did), the previous installation of jre. However, after downloading the new version and checking /usr/portage/distfiles/, I discovered that there are about 3 other versions of sun-jre-bin in this directory. Can these be removed? Also, despite the unmerge, there are 3 other sun-jre-bin-version directories in /opt. Can these also be safely removed? Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, Yes, you can (i even do it ;-) remove old package sources. The single drawback is that if you need to downgrade (rarely happens) you have to download them again (i use distclean script). Check www.gentooexperimental.org for this and other usefull scripts. To your second question-just think (not sure) this are only parts of the old installs. As far as you removed (emerge -C) the previous packages, this isn't a great problem. Check the dirs content. HTH.Rumen Thanks. I did figure out that the directories in /opt were just remnants - they only had the man directory in them, so I removed them. Will check out the link. Also will take under advisement your caution regarding the removal of files in /usr/portage/distfiles. Based on what you said, I think I will keep one older version of the sun-jre-bin versions, but I'll remove the others. And this did help. Regards, Colleen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDwIVL7FsR4jhcRJoRAq7DAKCsX+hQNPE7TNU7+WKfy8rqPwvJxwCfaBYX JURBU+6BE0zaPl2x8uSwYKQ= =BN7I -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] jre question
Hi all, I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download the binary from sun and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Prior to downloading, I unmerge (or thought I did), the previous installation of jre. However, after downloading the new version and checking /usr/portage/distfiles/, I discovered that there are about 3 other versions of sun-jre-bin in this directory. Can these be removed? Also, despite the unmerge, there are 3 other sun-jre-bin-version directories in /opt. Can these also be safely removed? Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
