Cleaning symlinked libraries

finferflu · 2008-11-20 00:58:08

I am thinking of a good clening up of my libraries, especially after all the recent upgrades.
Being my sistem already installed for a while, I am reminded of my past errors, namely, I used to symlink the libraries when the newer packages complained about a missing version, instead of rebuilding the packages.

So now I would like to make sure everything is good and clean, and I'm wondering if there is any way to track down which libraries I had symlinked manually (of course, I cannot remember them by heart).

Wishing for a feasible solution, thank you for your time

Profjim · 2008-11-20 03:47:52

This wouldn't filter out symlinks created in .install files, but it would filter out most of the ones created by your packages...

find /lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib -type l -exec pacman -Qo '{}' \; | fgrep -v 'is owned by'

Allan · 2008-11-20 04:07:35

That should work and there should not be (m)any symlinks created in .install files. Just look at the output and make sure it looks like an evil symlink before deleting it.

finferflu · 2008-11-20 11:35:50

Thanks for your replies, however I was referring to those I had created manually, rather than those created by my packages.

Ranguvar · 2008-11-20 19:08:02

That's what it will do fgrep -v will list lines NOT containing the text. They're just saying symlinks created by *.install files won't be filtered out of the resulting list.

One could probably add to that command to make it search through a recently-synced ABS's .install files and filter out symlinks it found in your dirs that are in those files, to further narrow it down, but I am not very experienced in bash (yet).

finferflu · 2008-11-20 19:09:55

Ah! my bad, I guess I should read more carefully... it was wouldn't, NOT would

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Cleaning symlinked libraries

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