[Mageia-dev] Old library packages left on system after upgrade

Wed Mar 28 18:11:13 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 28/03/12 17:07 did gyre and gimble:
+> We know that urpme --auto-orphans doesn't remove all orphaned libraries,
+> and there are reasons for that.  Manually you generally should be able to
+> get rid of them, and generally urpmi_rpm-find-leaves will show them.  There
+> are three I noticed in my upgrade tests that aren't being shown, so they only
+> way I found them was diffing the installed package list against the list of
+> RPMS from my mirror.  They are:
+> libxulrunner9.0.1
+> libhunspell1.2_0
+> libnotify1
+> 
+> Also not being shown is libvpx0, which is still on the mirror, but has been
+> replaced by libvpx1, so the script should be removing libvpx0 from the tree
+> pretty soon.
+> 
+> I'm guessing these don't show in up in find-leaves because of some inter-
+> dependencies between them.  Is there anything we can do to fix this?  Of
+> course it's also a bit unfortunate to be leaving behind these old libraries
+> that contain security vulnerabilities...
+
+urpmq --not-available
+
+
+This command shows all packages currently installed that are no longer
+available via the media.
+
+I pretty much exclusively use this tool to tidy up my systems as the
+auto-orphan state always seems to get out of sync for me.
+
+Col
+
+
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