[SM-Discuss] Going back to Gentoo

Thomas Orgis thomas-forum at orgis.org
Thu Oct 30 04:01:07 EDT 2008


Am Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:14:14 -0500 (CDT)
schrieb Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at RawFedDogs.net>: 

> It does sound like cleanse does a more thorough job.

Indeed. It checks every installed file via checksum and runs ldd
on everything to see if the libraries are OK.
Cleanse is actually a good burn-in test for your machine -- at least
I was able to repeatedly show corrupted RAM/controller/whatever with
cleanse on a server box I was installing. The compiles went fine, but
cleanse stressed it enough to give up. I'm glad now that it prevented
me from putting important services onto that broken box;-)
The next server was fine with cleanse and stable in operation (until
the company providing it has been closed down).

>  Now if it would just 
> stop trying to fix the openoffice-bin package I installed that's wasn't
> broken or trying to fix tetex because I updated a map file to add some 
> fonts I installed ...

That's bugs. Manpower is the key here -- one can mark such files as volatile
and cleanse won't complain. But one has to do that with the spells...
Not so sure about openoffice, but I guess that could be helped, too.


Alrighty then,

Thomas.
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