Comments on: Finding (and purging) orphaned packages

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:28:53 +0000

You may know already, but teuf just added Pascal’s patch in urpmi 6.31 so it will go into Mandriva 2010 \o/

By: yoho

yoho — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:31:46 +0000

Hey ! I’ve just opened a bug report (wish) about this a while ago !! Thanks for addressing this ! https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=51418

By: Nick Brown

Nick Brown — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Great work Pascal! Can we expect this in next version of the urpmi package?

By: Pascal Terjan

Pascal Terjan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:59:53 +0000

That’s why this one is for urpmq, to give you the information, and not in urpme

By: Bernard

Bernard — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:43:35 +0000

All these methods give you hints on packages that might be orphans but I’d never go on and remove all orphan reported packages blindly. The provided script mostly reports rpm that where not installed from rpm media such as skype or other such softwares.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:34:06 +0000

Nice work Pascal Thanks for including this functionality (and turbocharging it) in urpmq!

By: Pascal Terjan

Pascal Terjan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:24:38 +0000

I just tried adding it inside urpmq, and it speedups it a bit :

[pterjan@plop perl-install]$ time urpmq –not-available > /dev/null
2.36user 0.31system 0:03.31elapsed 80%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
152inputs+0outputs (1major+23031minor)pagefaults 0swaps

[pterjan@plop perl-install]$ time sh o.sh > /dev/null
5.82user 0.38system 0:07.71elapsed 80%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+1872outputs (0major+30996minor)pagefaults 0swaps

sub _search_not_available_packages {
my ($urpm) = @_;
my %available;
foreach my $p (@{$urpm->{depslist}}) {
$available{$p->name.”-”.$p->version.”-”.$p->release.”.”.$p->arch} = 1;
}
my $db = urpm::db_open_or_die_($urpm);
$db->traverse(sub {
my ($p) = @_;
my $s = $p->name.”-”.$p->version.”-”.$p->release.”.”.$p->arch;
$available{$s} || print “$s\n”;
});
}

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:30:19 +0000

Nope. That gives completely different output.

e.g. one of the listed packages is libportaudio0 but this is still provided by the media and I have it installed.

[colin@jimmy ~]$ rpm -q libportaudio0
libportaudio0-18.1-11mdv2010.0
[colin@jimmy ~]$ urpmq -r libportaudio0
libportaudio0-18.1-11mdv2010.0

So.like I say, this is doing something different.

By: blino

blino — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:30:26 +0000

Or just “urpmi_rpm-find-leaves -g” ?

By: Akari (akari) 's status on Sunday, 11-Oct-09 12:20:40 UTC - Identi.ca

Akari (akari) 's status on Sunday, 11-Oct-09 12:20:40 UTC - Identi.ca — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:20:47 +0000

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