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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