Re: OT - Question about glsa-check

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OT - Question about glsa-check
\ Michael Sullivan (9 Jun 2007)
. \ Kent Fredric (9 Jun 2007)
. . \ Michael Sullivan (9 Jun 2007)
. . \ Alex Schuster (9 Jun 2007)
. . . \ Bo Ørsted Andresen (9 Jun 2007)
. . . \ Kent Fredric (9 Jun 2007)

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Subject:	Re: OT - Question about glsa-check
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Kent Fredric
Date:	9 Jun 2007

On 6/10/07, Alex Schuster <wonko> wrote:
> Kent Fredric writes:
>
> > On 6/10/07, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355> wrote:
> > > The last several times I've run glsa-check, it's
> > > recommended that I emerge a package that portage
> > > claims is already installed on my system:
> [...]
>
> > Its possible ( somehow ) you have dupe/stale tomcats lying around.
>
> I guess that, too, I had the same problem. Have a look at the output
> of "eix -I www-servers/tomcat" to check that (I assumne everyone here has
> eix installed these days, right?).
>
> I did not knw about glsa-check until recently, and was surprised it showed
> a pile of packages to update. Some were no longer dependencies of things
> I have in world, so my world updates did not update them. And some were
> installed multiple times, I had to unmerge the older ones, as you suggest
> here:
>
> > You tried
> > emerge -C "<www-servers/tomcat-5.5.22"
> > just to ensure this?, cos it looks like glsa-check sees 5.0.27
> > somewhere ^^;
>
> Any idea how this can happen? Aborted emerges or what? But shouldn't
> emerge clean, or auto-clean which happens then emerge -u world has
> nothing to update, do this? How can one find those?

eix -i --format "(green,1)<category>(blue,1)/(yellow,1)<name>() |
<installedversionsshort>"

should help you narrow your search down if your looking for dup installs.

/how/ the dup installs occur is unknown to me, but it would seem the
most logical answer would be something to do with slotting. -- or
disabling autoclean with FEATURES.

emerge -p --depclean

should also help you out a bit ( i guess ... i wouldn't know, the last
time i had a system that was -uvaDN world friendly was a /long/ time
ago )

and if you were wondering, sometimes emerge -uvaDN world /will/ miss
some upgrades if nothing depends on them and they're not in world (
orphans )
if emerge -uvaDN world shows nothing, run eix -cu and see all the
other things on your system which could be removed/upgraded

I reccomend adding some to world with emerge --noreplace <atom>
;)

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