System Maintenance

From M L Vision Network Services Wiki

This is a good way to keep Gentoo clean.

Update portage tree

emerge --sync

Upgrade world

emerge -uDpNv world

Clean obsolete portage source files

eclean -d -p world

Remove unnecessary packages

emerge -p --depclean --with-bdeps n (confirm files first!)

Prune old slotted packages

emerge -Pp (always remove individual packages manually!)

Check reverse dependancies

revdep-rebuild

Estimate world upgrade

emerge -uDpN world | genlop -p

Repair Init.d Dependancies

depscan.sh --update

Useful tools

• perl-cleaner (all)
• python-updater
• genlop