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From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.
Date: Sat May 12 08:10:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AFD3D1A.7EEBFD0D@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010512072757.1374c692.erichey2@home.com

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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      reply	other threads:[~2001-05-12 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-11 20:00 [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc Collins Richey
2001-05-11 22:23 ` Justus Pendleton
2001-05-11 22:29   ` Daniel Robbins
2001-05-12  7:20     ` Collins Richey
2001-05-12  8:10       ` Achim Gottinger [this message]

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