* Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] manual uninstall
@ 2008-02-14 8:51 99% ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2008-02-14 8:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-portage-dev; +Cc: Lanza Fabrizio
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On Thursday 14 February 2008, Lanza Fabrizio wrote:
> I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge --unmerge).
not supported
> How
> do I tell emerge that a package is not installed (even if it is)? (I
> basically need to force a reinstall, for a catalyst issue.)
you unmerge it ... if you insist on modifying the backend information, then
see:
> Another good question is: how does portage know that a package is
> actually installed?
portage maintains installed package information in /var/db/pkg/
-mike
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