RE: Cleaning Out Ports?
That's correct; this type of functionality is exactly what I was searching for. -Original Message- From: Loren M. Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 6:50 AM To: Michael C. Shultz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Matt LaPlante Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? There's still one missing part to it that gentoo's portage has. In addition to the standard database of installed packages, emerge keeps track of every single package that you explicitly installed in a file called world. Upgrades read this file and update all the packages listed, including there dependencies first. Now if a package that was installed to satisfy a dependency, but not explicitly installed is now longer needed, it will stay on the system until the next time emerge --depclean is run. --depclean tells emerge to remove any packages that are not in the world file and are not needed to satify dependencies for packages in the world file, either directly or indirectly. I think this is the behavior that the original poster was asking for. AFAIK, this is not yet possible in FreeBSD, but it should be a trivial matter to add something like a world file to portupgrade. Maybe, if I have time this week I could work on a patch... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:32:41PM -0500, Matt LaPlante wrote: I know the ports system is designed to install dependencies automatically, but how does one go about removing them? Say one large package installs several dependencies, but then later on that package is removed...and now we're left with several orphaned packages. Is there a way to either detect, or even automatically clean out orphaned packages? I'm particularly concerned because I'm dealing with a few systems which are rather well aged, and have gone through several upgrade cycles. I know the Linux version of the ports system found in Gentoo (portage) offers extensive functionality for finding and removing orphaned dependencies, so I'm hoping FreeBSD has some such feature as well. Thanks. Have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves. It is a script that detects and removes orphaned dependencies. Christopher ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
On 31 Jan Michael C. Shultz wrote: If sysutils/pkg_cutleaves isn't right, please provide good detail why. What's the benefir over using portsclean -D or portsclean -CDPP Works like a charm. (see man portsclean). -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 01:31 am, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 31 Jan Michael C. Shultz wrote: If sysutils/pkg_cutleaves isn't right, please provide good detail why. What's the benefir over using portsclean -D or portsclean -CDPP Works like a charm. (see man portsclean). Portsclean has nothing to do with what Matt is looking for. He is trying to remove ports that are installed but have no useful purpose. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 06:22:58PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Monday 31 January 2005 06:16 pm, Matt LaPlante wrote: Well what I'm more concerned with is how would you locate orphaned dependencies after the fact. For a parallel example, in gentoo you would emerge --depclean which searches the tree for any orphaned packages and removes them. So say I hadn't used the -r flag when removing packages on BSD, how could I find the leftovers later? Look at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves here is a excerpt from its man page: pkg_cutleaves finds installed 'leaf' packages, i.e. packages that are not referenced by any other installed package, and lets you decide for each one if you want to keep or deinstall it (via pkg_deinstall(1)). Once the packages marked for removal have been flushed/deinstalled, you'll be asked if you want to do another run (to see packages that have become 'leaves' now because you've deinstalled the package(s) that depended on them). In every run you will be shown only packages that you haven't marked for keeping, yet. There's still one missing part to it that gentoo's portage has. In addition to the standard database of installed packages, emerge keeps track of every single package that you explicitly installed in a file called world. Upgrades read this file and update all the packages listed, including there dependencies first. Now if a package that was installed to satisfy a dependency, but not explicitly installed is now longer needed, it will stay on the system until the next time emerge --depclean is run. --depclean tells emerge to remove any packages that are not in the world file and are not needed to satify dependencies for packages in the world file, either directly or indirectly. I think this is the behavior that the original poster was asking for. AFAIK, this is not yet possible in FreeBSD, but it should be a trivial matter to add something like a world file to portupgrade. Maybe, if I have time this week I could work on a patch... -- Matt LaPlante System Administrator Center for Automation Technologies RPI/CAT, CII 8015 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 276-2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cat.rpi.edu -Original Message- From: Pat Maddox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 PM To: Matt LaPlante Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then it'll let you know. You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to delete the package, despite there being any dependencies. If you want to delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can use the -r flag. Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken. I think that's about right. I'm a FreeBSD newbie :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
* David J. Weller-Fahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-01 08:24 +0100]:
* Matt LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-01 02:36 +0100]:
Attached is my script, and my conf file.
Unfortunately, my script got stripped. Here's the script with a txt
extension.
Regards,
--
dave [ please don't CC me ]
#!/bin/sh
# $HOME/bin/rm_leaf.sh
set -e
LETC=/usr/local/etc
PBASE=/usr/ports
RMLFCNF=rm_leaf.conf
SCRFILE=remove_leaf_ports.sh
PKGINFO=`cd /var/db/pkg find . -type d | sed '/^.$/d;s/^\.\///'`
PKGREQB=`cd /var/db/pkg ls */+REQUIRED_BY | sed 's/\/+REQUIRED_BY//g'`
NOTLIST=`cat $LETC/$RMLFCNF`
# remove any packages that are required by any other packages
for PKG in $PKGREQB ; do [ -s /var/db/pkg/$PKG/+REQUIRED_BY ] \
PKGINFO=`echo $PKGINFO | sed s/$PKG//` ; done
# remove any packages that are in the users list of 'to keep' packages
for PKG in $NOTLIST ; do PKGINFO=`echo $PKGINFO | sed s/$PKG[^ ]*//` ; done
# if there's nothing left in PKGINFO, exit now
[ -z $PKGINFO ] echo No packages/ports to remove. exit
rm -f $SCRFILE # remove the script file (just in case)
# match up packages to origin in the ports tree
for PKG in $PKGINFO ; do RMLIST=${RMLIST:-} $PKG:$PBASE/`pkg_info -o $( echo
$PKG ) | sed -n '/^Origin:$/{n;p;}'` ; done
cat $SCRFILE EOFA
#!/bin/sh
# script to remove all leaf packages not listed in /usr/local/etc/rm_leaf.list
set -e
EOFA
# create script to remove all selected packages
for PKG in $RMLIST ; do
PNAME=`echo $PKG | sed 's/:.*$//'`
PPATH=`echo $PKG | sed 's/^[^:]*://'`
cat $SCRFILE -EOFB
echo Removing $PNAME in $PPATH:
cd $PPATH
make deinstall clean distclean
echo Success! ; echo ; echo
EOFB
done
[ -n ${1:-} ] cat $SCRFILE rm $SCRFILE
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Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 08:04, Christopher Illies wrote: Have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves. It is a script that detects and removes orphaned dependencies. Just bear in mind that some of the leaves will be required for building other ports. Whilst they can be safely removed, it might save time to leave them. Personally, I think pkg_cutleaves has it about right, anything more automated may lead to nasty surprises. Such systems have no reliable way of knowing whether users are making direct use of a port that was originally installed as a dependency. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then it'll let you know. You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to delete the package, despite there being any dependencies. If you want to delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can use the -r flag. Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken. I think that's about right. I'm a FreeBSD newbie :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Cleaning Out Ports?
Well what I'm more concerned with is how would you locate orphaned dependencies after the fact. For a parallel example, in gentoo you would emerge --depclean which searches the tree for any orphaned packages and removes them. So say I hadn't used the -r flag when removing packages on BSD, how could I find the leftovers later? -- Matt LaPlante System Administrator Center for Automation Technologies RPI/CAT, CII 8015 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 276-2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cat.rpi.edu -Original Message- From: Pat Maddox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 PM To: Matt LaPlante Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then it'll let you know. You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to delete the package, despite there being any dependencies. If you want to delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can use the -r flag. Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken. I think that's about right. I'm a FreeBSD newbie :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
pkgdb -F will tell you of any packages that have broken dependencies, and allow you to fix them if you choose. On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:16:56 -0500, Matt LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well what I'm more concerned with is how would you locate orphaned dependencies after the fact. For a parallel example, in gentoo you would emerge --depclean which searches the tree for any orphaned packages and removes them. So say I hadn't used the -r flag when removing packages on BSD, how could I find the leftovers later? -- Matt LaPlante System Administrator Center for Automation Technologies RPI/CAT, CII 8015 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 276-2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cat.rpi.edu -Original Message- From: Pat Maddox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 PM To: Matt LaPlante Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then it'll let you know. You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to delete the package, despite there being any dependencies. If you want to delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can use the -r flag. Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken. I think that's about right. I'm a FreeBSD newbie :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
On Monday 31 January 2005 06:16 pm, Matt LaPlante wrote: Well what I'm more concerned with is how would you locate orphaned dependencies after the fact. For a parallel example, in gentoo you would emerge --depclean which searches the tree for any orphaned packages and removes them. So say I hadn't used the -r flag when removing packages on BSD, how could I find the leftovers later? Look at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves here is a excerpt from its man page: pkg_cutleaves finds installed 'leaf' packages, i.e. packages that are not referenced by any other installed package, and lets you decide for each one if you want to keep or deinstall it (via pkg_deinstall(1)). Once the packages marked for removal have been flushed/deinstalled, you'll be asked if you want to do another run (to see packages that have become 'leaves' now because you've deinstalled the package(s) that depended on them). In every run you will be shown only packages that you haven't marked for keeping, yet. -- Matt LaPlante System Administrator Center for Automation Technologies RPI/CAT, CII 8015 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 276-2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cat.rpi.edu -Original Message- From: Pat Maddox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 PM To: Matt LaPlante Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then it'll let you know. You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to delete the package, despite there being any dependencies. If you want to delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can use the -r flag. Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken. I think that's about right. I'm a FreeBSD newbie :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
I think portsclean does that. I can't remember how though. Its in the portupgrade package. Nathan - Original Message - From: Matt LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Pat Maddox' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:16 PM Subject: RE: Cleaning Out Ports? Well what I'm more concerned with is how would you locate orphaned dependencies after the fact. For a parallel example, in gentoo you would emerge --depclean which searches the tree for any orphaned packages and removes them. So say I hadn't used the -r flag when removing packages on BSD, how could I find the leftovers later? -- Matt LaPlante System Administrator Center for Automation Technologies RPI/CAT, CII 8015 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 276-2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cat.rpi.edu -Original Message- From: Pat Maddox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 PM To: Matt LaPlante Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then it'll let you know. You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to delete the package, despite there being any dependencies. If you want to delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can use the -r flag. Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken. I think that's about right. I'm a FreeBSD newbie :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Cleaning Out Ports?
This looks like what I'm after, thank you! -Original Message- From: Michael C. Shultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:23 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Matt LaPlante Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? On Monday 31 January 2005 06:16 pm, Matt LaPlante wrote: Well what I'm more concerned with is how would you locate orphaned dependencies after the fact. For a parallel example, in gentoo you would emerge --depclean which searches the tree for any orphaned packages and removes them. So say I hadn't used the -r flag when removing packages on BSD, how could I find the leftovers later? Look at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves here is a excerpt from its man page: pkg_cutleaves finds installed 'leaf' packages, i.e. packages that are not referenced by any other installed package, and lets you decide for each one if you want to keep or deinstall it (via pkg_deinstall(1)). Once the packages marked for removal have been flushed/deinstalled, you'll be asked if you want to do another run (to see packages that have become 'leaves' now because you've deinstalled the package(s) that depended on them). In every run you will be shown only packages that you haven't marked for keeping, yet. -- Matt LaPlante System Administrator Center for Automation Technologies RPI/CAT, CII 8015 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 276-2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cat.rpi.edu -Original Message- From: Pat Maddox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 PM To: Matt LaPlante Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then it'll let you know. You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to delete the package, despite there being any dependencies. If you want to delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can use the -r flag. Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken. I think that's about right. I'm a FreeBSD newbie :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
On Monday 31 January 2005 06:35 pm, Matt LaPlante wrote: This looks like what I'm after, thank you! After you try it, if sysutils/pkg_cutleaves doesn't meet your requirements please let me know. I can add exactly what you asked for to sysutils/portmanager. I don't want to add features that are available elsewhere unless there is a very compelling reason. If sysutils/pkg_cutleaves isn't right, please provide good detail why. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
