Pclean, a new /etc/portage/package.* cleaner

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Nov 072010
 

I’ve often gotten frustrated with my /etc/portage/package.* files when they become massive and full of crud that I don’t even have installed any longer. Because of this I have crafted a simple little utility to clean out packages that are no longer installed and use flags that are no longer valid from these files. This should help trim the cruft from the Gentoo configuration.

The utility, pclean, does all of this and only has one major problem (so far) before I shall call it good enough for a 1.0 release. If you would like to try this little utility; it’s available in my overlay and if you notice any odd behavior please report it to my bugzilla.

 Posted by Alex Brandt at 9:53 AM  Tagged with: , , , , ,

Layman Overlay

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Jan 112010
 

My Overlay

My overlay has been available via subversion for quite some time now, but not in any easy to use format (integration with layman).  Getting this overlay to work with yours must have been a pain if you wanted to try something I had been working on.

Making My Overlay Available

The first thing I had to do to make my overlay talk with layman, let alone get along with layman, was add an xml definition of the overlay somewhere.  I chose the easy to manipulate path of http://www.alunduil.com/svn/portage/trunk/portage/alunduil-overlay.xml.

Adding My Overlay List to Your Layman

To add my overlay(s) to your layman list, simply add the following path to your overlays variable in /etc/layman/layman.cfg: `http://www.alunduil.com/svn/portage/trunk/portage/alunduil-overlay.xml`.

 Posted by Alex Brandt at 11:22 AM  Tagged with: , , ,
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