[gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.

[gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.

[Collins Richey]

1. Is there a way to get a listing of packages that have been
installed, ie something like rpm -qa if your're using rpm?

2.  How does one resync to pick up current packages, and does
this effect any packages you've already installed?

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Sybil test system (reiserfs)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.

[Justus Pendleton]

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:07:27PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> 1. Is there a way to get a listing of packages that have been
> installed, ie something like rpm -qa if your're using rpm?

ls /var/db/pkg/*

will give you a list of all installed packages.

> 2.  How does one resync to pick up current packages, and does
> this effect any packages you've already installed?

The portage user guide talks about this.  Basically do

rsync -avz rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86-portage/* /usr/portage

It doesn't affect already installed packages in any way whatsoever.
All it does it update your portage area.  Then you can do ebuilds or
whatever and update whatever packages you want to update.

Justus

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.

[Daniel Robbins]

On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:21:53AM -0400, Justus Pendleton wrote:

> rsync -avz rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86-portage/* /usr/portage
> 
> It doesn't affect already installed packages in any way whatsoever.
> All it does it update your portage area.  Then you can do ebuilds or
> whatever and update whatever packages you want to update.

If you have a recent version of Portage installed, you can also type:

# emerge rsync

(it'll do the same thing)

"emerge rsync clean" will remove stale ebuilds as well.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 11 May 2001 22:28:01 -0600 Daniel Robbins
<drobbins@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:21:53AM -0400, Justus Pendleton
> wrote:
> 
> > rsync -avz rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86-portage/*
> /usr/portage
> > 
> > It doesn't affect already installed packages in any way
> whatsoever.
> > All it does it update your portage area.  Then you can do
> ebuilds or
> > whatever and update whatever packages you want to update.
> 
> If you have a recent version of Portage installed, you can
> also type:
> 
> # emerge rsync
> 
> (it'll do the same thing)
> 
> "emerge rsync clean" will remove stale ebuilds as well.
> 
>

What is a stale ebuild?

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Sybil test system (reiserfs)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.

[Achim Gottinger]

Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 11 May 2001 22:28:01 -0600 Daniel Robbins
> <drobbins@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:21:53AM -0400, Justus Pendleton
> > wrote:
> >
> > > rsync -avz rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86-portage/*
> > /usr/portage
> > >
> > > It doesn't affect already installed packages in any way
> > whatsoever.
> > > All it does it update your portage area.  Then you can do
> > ebuilds or
> > > whatever and update whatever packages you want to update.
> >
> > If you have a recent version of Portage installed, you can
> > also type:
> >
> > # emerge rsync
> >
> > (it'll do the same thing)
> >
> > "emerge rsync clean" will remove stale ebuilds as well.
> >
> >
> 
> What is a stale ebuild?

A package that was removed from the rsync server. 

achim~

> 
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> Denver Area
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> 
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