Removing everything but base group-wiki advice broken [solved]

graysky · 2011-11-12 15:05:10

One liner on the wiki gives dep errors for me. Thoughts?

My goal is to remove everything but the base group.

# pacman -Rs $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq) <(pacman -Qgq base))
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: acl: requires attr>=2.4.46
:: coreutils: requires pam
:: libcap: requires attr
:: libmediainfo: requires curl
:: libusb-compat: requires libusb
:: logrotate: requires cron
:: shadow: requires pam
:: usbutils: requires libusb

Last edited by graysky (2011-11-12 15:45:59)

karol · 2011-11-12 15:31:30

e.g. pam is not in 'base' group but it's required by e.g. coreutils, which are in 'base' group.
Try

for i in $(pacman -Qqg base); do pactree -ul $i >> base1; done

and

pacman -Rs $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq|sort) <(sort -u base1|cut -d ' ' -f 1))

Shark · 2011-11-12 15:40:46

karol wrote:

e.g. pam is not in 'base' group but it's required by e.g. coreutils, which are in 'base' group.
Try
for i in $(pacman -Qqg base); do pactree -ul $i >> base1; done
and
pacman -Rs $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq|sort) <(sort -u base1|cut -d ' ' -f 1))

The last comand works flawlessly.

Last edited by Shark (2011-11-12 15:42:33)

graysky · 2011-11-12 15:45:42

I actually nuked my chroot and rebuilt so I'm reluctant to try it Shark - since you have established that it worked, would you update the wiki page?

Thanks karol as usual

karol · 2011-11-12 15:47:18

Shark wrote:

karol wrote:
e.g. pam is not in 'base' group but it's required by e.g. coreutils, which are in 'base' group.
Try
for i in $(pacman -Qqg base); do pactree -ul $i >> base1; done
and
pacman -Rs $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq|sort) <(sort -u base1|cut -d ' ' -f 1))
The last comand works flawlessly.

About the error you posted a second ago, both commands work for me, but I've just remembered I'm using pacman 4 ;P

Notes:
1. comm requires sorted input otherwise you get e.g. 'comm: file 1 is not in sorted order' error.
2. pactree prints the package name followed by what it provides e.g.

[karol@black ~]$ pactree -lu logrotate
logrotate
popt
glibc
linux-api-headers
tzdata
dcron cron
bash
readline
ncurses
gzip

Here it's the 'dcron cron' line.

[karol@black ~]$ sudo pacman -Rs $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq|sort) <(sort -u base1))
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: logrotate: requires cron

If we keep just 'dcron', things seem to work.

@graysky
It's safe to try, you'll get a prompt:

Total Removed Size:     1370,77 MiB

Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]

Answer 'n' and you're fine.

======== Edit ========
Maybe the second command should be

pacman -Rs $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qq|sort) <(sort -u base1|cut -d ' ' -f 1))

The first bracket now has 'pacman -Qq' instead of 'pacman -Qeq', in case you have some package that's 'Installed as a dependency for another package' but not actually required by any.
The proper way of fixing such situation is

pacman -D --asexplicit <packagename>

======== Edit 2 ========
Oneliner w/o a temp file:

pacman -Rs $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq|sort) <((for i in $(pacman -Qqg base); do pactree -ul $i; done)|sort -u|cut -d ' ' -f 1))

Last edited by karol (2011-11-12 16:09:07)

Shark · 2011-11-12 16:05:13

I have edited the wiki. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … base_group
It is my first edit of wiki. I hope i did right.

Last edited by Shark (2011-11-12 16:09:14)

karol · 2011-11-12 16:10:59

Edited your edit so it uses this oneliner w/o a temp file:

pacman -Rs $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq|sort) <((for i in $(pacman -Qqg base); do pactree -ul $i; done)|sort -u|cut -d ' ' -f 1))

I'll add the notes explaining what's being done in a minute.

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Removing everything but base group-wiki advice broken [solved]

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Re: Removing everything but base group-wiki advice broken [solved]

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Re: Removing everything but base group-wiki advice broken [solved]

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