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From: Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>
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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?

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Collins Richey
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