Re: about 64bits time_t transition and deborphan

2024-02-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Out of curiosity, I started this transition on some packages from > experimental and I observed that deborphan is not without > «disruption». > [...] > Is this something to be reported to deborphan as it could also be in > some other cases than this

about 64bits time_t transition and deborphan

2024-02-05 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, Out of curiosity, I started this transition on some packages from experimental and I observed that deborphan is not without «disruption». Indeed, the added suffix t64 to their name means that the updated libraries are listed by deborphan even if they are required by other packages. I suspect

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Hans
> By default it does remove automatically installed packages (but not their > configurations), see the manual page and [1]. So it's quite possible that > it did just that on your system. > > Next time you do an experiment like that, make sure to set up a suitable > control group[2] :-) > > [1] ht

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:06:03PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Peter Ludikovsky writes: > > > What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that > > aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the > > only

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
hose packages that were installed along with . Rodolfo > > On 12/01/2016 12:26 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install >> ', and along with it a certain number of other packages were >> installed. Then I did: `ap

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
What was the output from aptitude purge? The reason I'm asking is that aptitude usually auto-removes packages where the one removed was the only one with dependencies. Regards. /peter On 12/01/2016 12:26 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2016, 11:49:20 CET schrieb Rodolfo Medina: > Nicolas George writes: > > Le primidi 11 frimaire, an CCXXV, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > Same result: none of them. > > Rodolfo Try aptitude purge `deborphan --guess-all` But look, what is going to

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Nicolas George writes: > Le primidi 11 frimaire, an CCXXV, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : >> I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install >> ', and along with it a certain number of other packages were >> installed. Then I did: `aptitude purg

Re: deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Nicolas George
Le primidi 11 frimaire, an CCXXV, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install > ', and along with it a certain number of other packages were > installed. Then I did: `aptitude purge ' followed by `deborphan' but >

deborphan

2016-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I did a little experiment with deborphan: first I did: `aptitude install ', and along with it a certain number of other packages were installed. Then I did: `aptitude purge ' followed by `deborphan' but in the output of `deborphan' none of those packages that were insta

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:07:35 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: ... > p.s. starting with a server that had just over 600 packages, i'm now > down to 460, with no loss in functionality. hopefully, this will make > that final upgrade as safe as possible. Just as a miscellaneous reference poi

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
fslint and cruft are also helpful in keeping a system clean, by finding out duplicate files, broken links, etc. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > much thanks to whoever suggested "deborphan" recently to help me > clean out unused libraries. i've been fairly conservative with it, > getting rid of libs a bit at a time and making sure things still run. > p.s. starting with a server that

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Aug.09, 05:00:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the "minimal" part appears to be correct. it's a back-room server, > ssh-accessible only, no X. i've been removing things to the point > where i'm now down below 450 packages. i'm a big believer in > simplicity. You might want to disable

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mark Allums wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage. > > but i was curious when i noticed that "libhal1" on this etch > > system is listed as an orphan. > > > > coming from a fedora universe, i always thought of

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Allums
Robert P. J. Day wrote: theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage. but i was curious when i noticed that "libhal1" on this etch system is listed as an orphan. coming from a fedora universe, i always thought of the HAL layer as fairly fundamental, but i guess i've stripp

"deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
much thanks to whoever suggested "deborphan" recently to help me clean out unused libraries. i've been fairly conservative with it, getting rid of libs a bit at a time and making sure things still run. someone else locally suggested to just throw caution to the winds and run

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Csányi Pál wrote: > Is there an automated way to do this task out there? Try 'orphaner'. sudo orphaner Or sudo orphaner --purge Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-18 Thread - Tong -
job quite well. No need the deborphan. For details check out: aptitude advantages http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/distro/debian/deb10-AptitudeRelated/index.html#_aptitude_advantages > What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just > because it's

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-17 Thread Sven Joachim
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 08/16/2007 05:45 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote: >>> I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package >>> manager. It automatically delete orphaned packages. >> >> What if I'm still using t

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-16 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/16/2007 05:45 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote: I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. It automatically delete orphaned packages. What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just because i

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-16 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote: > I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. > It automatically delete orphaned packages. What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just because it's not being maintained is no reason to dele

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-16 Thread Wei Wang
I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. It automatically delete orphaned packages. Regards On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:19 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hello! > > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: > sudo deborphan | less > > and then c

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-16 Thread dulev
> > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: > > One line/instruction with "debfoster". > "apt-get autoremove" also does some interesting things. But not in the Etch with apt version 0.6.. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-16 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:19 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hello! Hi, > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: One line/instruction with "debfoster". "apt-get autoremove" also does some interesting things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-16 Thread Johannes Tax
Hello, On [Thu, 16.08.2007 08:19], Csányi Pál wrote: > I try: > sudo deborphan | aptitude purge dpkg --purge `deborphan` executed as root will do the job. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-16 Thread Sven Joachim
Csányi Pál <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: > sudo deborphan | less > > and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude. > > Is there an automated way to do this task out there? > > man deborph

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-16 Thread wimpunk
Csányi Pál wrote: > Hello! > > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: > sudo deborphan | less > > and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude. > > Is there an automated way to do this task out there? > > man deborphan a

Using deborphan

2007-08-15 Thread Csányi Pál
Hello! I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: sudo deborphan | less and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude. Is there an automated way to do this task out there? man deborphan and man aptitude dont shows any suggestion about that. I try: sudo

Re: deborphan

2007-02-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > > > supposedly gives you similar functionality. > > > > oh, no. I don&#

Re: deborphan

2007-02-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > > supposedly gives you similar functionality. > > oh, no. I don't like aptitude and s

Re: deborphan

2007-02-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > > supposedly gives you similar functionality. > > oh, no. I don't like aptitude and s

Re: deborphan

2007-02-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 03.02.07 17:21, Greg Folkert wrote: > Funny, I was under the impression Deborphan was deprecated. Aptitude > supposedly gives you similar functionality. oh, no. I don't like aptitude and still use dselect, I hope i won't be pushed into using aptitude ... -- Matus UHLAR -

Re: deborphan

2007-02-04 Thread Michael Pobega
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:01:08PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: deborphan

2007-02-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:01:08PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: deborphan Mail-Followu

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:01:08PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: deborphan > >Mai

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
deborphan | xargs dpkg --purge On 2/3/07, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. dist: etch. deborphan gives: libgmp3c2 libpisync0 libopal-2.2.0 libident libtextwrap1 liblzo2-2 libmagick9 libc6-i386 libieee1284-3 libosp5 libpt-plugi

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 15:34 +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. > dist: etch. > > deborphan gives: > > libgmp3c2 > libpisync0 > libopal-2.2.0 > libident > libtextwrap1 > liblzo2-2 > libmagick9 > libc6-i386 >

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. dist: etch. deborphan gives: and mine gives: liblzo2-2 libttf-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libdivxdecore0 libsigc++-1.2-5c2 libstdc++5 libgnutls11 libldap-2.3-0 which is funny because I just installed the Sid system from

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Roman Stöckl-Schmidt
Gerard Robin schrieb: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: deborphan Mail-Followup-To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, On Sat,

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: deborphan Mail-Followup-To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:3

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread macondo
--- Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (03/02/07 15:34), Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > > my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. > > dist: etch. > > > > deborphan gives: > > > > libgmp3c2 > > libpisync0 > > libopal-2

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/02/07 15:34), Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. > dist: etch. > > deborphan gives: > > libgmp3c2 > libpisync0 > libopal-2.2.0 > libident > libtextwrap1 > liblzo2-2 > libmagick9 > libc6-i386 > libieee1284-3 &g

Re: deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:34:10PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > can I remove merely this packages ? > That depends. Do you use any of them? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

deborphan

2007-02-03 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, my processor is AMD turion 64 x2 TL50. dist: etch. deborphan gives: libgmp3c2 libpisync0 libopal-2.2.0 libident libtextwrap1 liblzo2-2 libmagick9 libc6-i386 libieee1284-3 libosp5 libpt-plugins-v4l libgnome-pilot2 libjaxp1.2-java libnm-glib0 libsigc++-1.2-5c2 libpt-plugins-alsa libldap

Re: Reliability of deborphan?

2006-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:33:15PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:54:55AM +, andy wrote: > > Hey all > > > > I've stumbled across references to "deborphan" to help maintain my > > system. I've installed it and read

Re: Reliability of deborphan?

2006-12-13 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:54:55AM +, andy wrote: > Hey all > > I've stumbled across references to "deborphan" to help maintain my > system. I've installed it and read the man so think that I have a > reasonable basic knowledge for what it is meant to d

Re: Reliability of deborphan?

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Haude
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:07:24 +0100, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you what's safe to delete. In one instance, the Opera browser has (had?) motif dependencies. However, because Opera is not a Debian package, and doesn't actually fail to install without the libmotif pa

Re: Reliability of deborphan?

2006-12-12 Thread Rob Bochan
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 06:54, andy wrote: > Hey all > > I've stumbled across references to "deborphan" to help maintain my > system. I've installed it and read the man so think that I have a > reasonable basic knowledge for what it is meant to do, so hav

Re: Reliability of deborphan?

2006-12-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.12.06 11:54, andy wrote: > I've stumbled across references to "deborphan" to help maintain my > system. I've installed it and read the man so think that I have a > reasonable basic knowledge for what it is meant to do, so have run > deborphan -zs and hav

Reliability of deborphan?

2006-12-12 Thread andy
Hey all I've stumbled across references to "deborphan" to help maintain my system. I've installed it and read the man so think that I have a reasonable basic knowledge for what it is meant to do, so have run deborphan -zs and have been given a list of files. In theory,

Re: deborphan defaults?

2006-05-25 Thread Felipe Sateler
Marc Shapiro wrote: > Can I reasonably assume that it is safe to uninstall these packages? I normally believe in deborphan's output, so I'd say it is. However, if you want to be sure, just check the rdepends. Most probably you'll see some package you installed sometime, but then later removed it. I

deborphan defaults?

2006-05-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
In my continuing effort to remove unneeded packages from my system I ran deborphan and came up with the following list of orphaned libs: libruby libdvdread3 liba52-0.7.4 libzzip-0-12 libfaad2-0 libhal0 libxosd2 libdirectfb-0.9-20 libstartup-notification0 libsigc++-1.2-5c102 libpostproc0

On the use of deborphan (was: Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space)

2005-06-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On 06/12/05 22:43, Tom Allison wrote: A thousand pardons. It found version 10 that was replaced by version 11. I was looking at version 11 being in use, not 10. You're right, I'm wrong. Sorry for the waste in bandwidth. No problems. BTW, here is the command that I use with deborphan

Re: quick n00b tip - purging files using deborphan

2002-10-15 Thread csj
move them: > > $ apt-get install deborphan > $ deborphan > > $ cat | dpkg --purge > > this will use as a package list of the items you want to > remove (including config files). > > worked like a charm for me! orphaner --purge is still more charming to me. --

quick n00b tip - purging files using deborphan

2002-10-14 Thread jeff
just a quick small tip... so as not to waste too much list space. to collect a list of 'orphan' files (files that your current system doesn't depend on) on your system and then remove them: $ apt-get install deborphan $ deborphan > $ cat | dpkg --purge this will use as

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Adam Scriven
At 11:23 2000/07/29 -0600, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:37:04PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:32:36AM +, Henry White wrote: > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > [...] > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > try newer 2.2.17pre's. I've got th

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:37:04PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:32:36AM +, Henry White wrote: > > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > [...] > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > try newer 2.2.17pre's. Another data point... When I installed 2.2.17pr

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Henry! [Henry] > > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > > > Segmentation fault [me] > > deborphan prior to 0.1.11-3 had big mem leaks [Henry] > No go :-[ Now I'm getting those error messages immediately after the > fetch. Stopped the

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:32:36AM +, Henry White wrote: > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... [...] > Any ideas or suggestions? try newer 2.2.17pre's. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypt

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Henry White
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:51:41PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi Henry! > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Henry White wrote: > > > After the latest apt-get update/upgrade/check (using sources woody and > > kernel 2.2.17) when i ran deborphan I got an on screen

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Henry! On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Henry White wrote: > After the latest apt-get update/upgrade/check (using sources woody and > kernel 2.2.17) when i ran deborphan I got an on screen message > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > Segmentation fault &

deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Henry White
After the latest apt-get update/upgrade/check (using sources woody and kernel 2.2.17) when i ran deborphan I got an on screen message VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Segmentation fault then the prompt returns. This also appears in kern.log and syslog as