[gentoo-portage-dev] what does /var/db/pkg/CAT/PKG/COUNTER count?

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* [gentoo-portage-dev] what does /var/db/pkg/CAT/PKG/COUNTER count?
@ 2009-07-22 15:15 Amit Dor-Shifer
  2009-07-22 21:32 ` Zac Medico
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Amit Dor-Shifer @ 2009-07-22 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-portage-dev

amit0 ~ # cat /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7/COUNTER
5316amit0 ~ #




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* Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] what does /var/db/pkg/CAT/PKG/COUNTER count?
  2009-07-22 15:15 [gentoo-portage-dev] what does /var/db/pkg/CAT/PKG/COUNTER count? Amit Dor-Shifer
@ 2009-07-22 21:32 ` Zac Medico
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Zac Medico @ 2009-07-22 21:32 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-portage-dev

Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> amit0 ~ # cat /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7/COUNTER
> 5316amit0 ~ #

It's used to keep track of installation order. It's not really
relevant for anything unless you happen to have AUTOCLEAN=no set in
make.conf (see /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example). In this
case, it's needed for emerge --clean to know which package was most
recently installed within a given SLOT.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac



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