On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:47:47PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> > > > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
> > > > debian packages that are not
Thank you for your answers.
The original problem is the following.
I run a Debian server with many users. On users requests, I often install
defferent packages. I am sure that many of those are no longer needed by
the users that requested them. So I want to find and uninstall those.
--
To UN
Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> > > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
> > > debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to
> > > the packages.
> >
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 2002.04.19 14:18 Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> > I believe 'deborphan' only looks for "dependant" type
> > packages, i.e. if you try and install package "a", but it
> > requires packages "b". Later, you remove package "a" but
> > package "b" gets left. It's n
> I think everyone has missed debfoster. It will run
> through what packages (and dependencies) you
> have asking if you still want them.
That appears similar to my method:
$ dpkg --get-selections > installed-debs
Print out that list (or view on screen) and then decide
which packages aren't
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:59:52PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2002, Peter Whysall wrote:
>
> > > find / -type f -atime +30 -perm +111 | xargs dpkg -S | sort | uniq >
> > > old.txt
> >
> > Well, old.txt now contains the following:
> >
> > peter:~ $ more old.txt
> > fdflush: /bin/fdflush
| Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
| debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to
| the packages.
|
| Could someone please point me to this tool ?
I think everyone has missed debfoster. It will run through what packages
(and depe
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:15:40PM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote:
> There's an obvious problem - it hits up every file, regardless. I
> certainly haven't accessed a lot of the non-English localisation files
> on my system in like forever, and old.txt is a resultant 700K in size.
There's a localepurge
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:15:40 +0100, Peter Whysall wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 16:46, Gary Turner wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
snip
>> This non-hacker is
>> thinking that a script t
On 2002.04.19 14:18 Hall Stevenson wrote:
I believe 'deborphan' only looks for "dependant" type
packages, i.e. if you try and install package "a", but it
requires packages "b". Later, you remove package "a" but
package "b" gets left. It's now likely unused. Running
'deborphan' *should* tell you
On 19 Apr 2002, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > find / -type f -atime +30 -perm +111 | xargs dpkg -S | sort | uniq >
> > old.txt
>
> Well, old.txt now contains the following:
>
> peter:~ $ more old.txt
> fdflush: /bin/fdflush
>
> Hmm. I wonder if that hasn't taken it from one extreme to the other...
Odd
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:21:42 +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:46:30AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
snip
>>
>> deborphan looks for files
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen
wrote:
> > > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can
find
> > > installed debian packages that are not used, based on
atime
> > > of files that belong to the packages.
> >
> > I think you're looking for popularity-contest
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 17:46, Mike Dresser wrote:
>
>
> On 19 Apr 2002, Peter Whysall wrote:
>
> > What we need to do is tell "find" to only find files that have
> > executable bits set, with the -perm switch - however, the following:
> >
> > find / -type f -atime +30 perm ugo+x | xargs dpkg -S |
On 19 Apr 2002, Peter Whysall wrote:
> What we need to do is tell "find" to only find files that have
> executable bits set, with the -perm switch - however, the following:
>
> find / -type f -atime +30 perm ugo+x | xargs dpkg -S | sort | uniq >
> old.txt
>
> doesn't return anything. Can someone
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:46:30AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> >> > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
> >> > debian packages t
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:59:34AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> > > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
> > > debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to
> > >
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 16:46, Gary Turner wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> >> > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
> >> > debian packages that are not u
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
>> > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
>> > debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to
>> > the pack
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
> > debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to
> > the packages.
>
> I think you're looking for popularity-contest
No, p
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:45:22PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
> debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to
> the packages.
>
> Could someone please point me to this tool
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