Re: On Debian and Fedora experiences

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On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 17:30 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
On 12/7/06, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
install yum-utils. run package-cleanup --leaves.


great!
So I can: remove package xxx, run package-cleanup --leaves, remove
what is listed there.

package-cleanup is useful, but --leaves only deals with lib* packages at
the moment, and --leaves --all tends to list a bit too many packages for
my taste for my most common use cases.

Other related things I've found useful:
- apt-get -D remove foo
- rpmdev-rmdevelrpms after customizing devpkgs
 in /etc/rpmdevtools/rmdevelrpms.conf
- weekly "diff -u /var/log/rpmpkgs.1 /var/log/rpmpkgs"

 Related but unrelated...

- `yum list extras`

The subcommand name is a little deceptive; from what I've read it was created before Fedora Extras came to existance (or was named such, anyway). From the man page:

       yum list extras [glob_exp1] [...]
              List the packages installed on the system that are not available
              in any yum repository listed in the config file.

It's kind of like deborphan in that it can find packages that didn't get replaced after upgrading to a new Fedora release. AFAICT, it only checks the NEVR; I've had it fail to catch a package I was reviewing once it showed up in the repo (it assumed they were the same package).

     Jima
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