From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H3WM3-0005zT-VX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:38:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l07BaEoO032627; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:36:14 GMT Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [67.62.15.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l07BXRRb032605 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:33:28 GMT Received: from ccs.covici.com (IDENT:covici@ccs [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l07BX0EY024882 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 06:33:04 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id l07BX0sM024879; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 06:33:00 -0500 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17824.55916.630821.349747@ccs.covici.com> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 06:33:00 -0500 From: John covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge In-Reply-To: <45A0B73D.20605@ilievnet.com> References: <17824.44410.827795.379755@ccs.covici.com> <45A0B73D.20605@ilievnet.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.50.2 X-Archives-Salt: 5105a501-21ce-481d-8efa-43b71c7dabdd X-Archives-Hash: 7ca83335c6ecd49990c342980bec95d7 OK, thanks guys this get me going -- I think I will emerge the toolkit and see what that gives me. on Sunday 01/07/2007 Daniel Iliev(danny@ilievnet.com) wrote > John covici wrote: > > Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type > > distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge. > > > > 1) Any way to get a package list as one line per package like > > debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ? The --info gives info about > > the system, but does not seem to give a list of packages. > > > > 2) How do I ensure that all dependencies of a package are updated -- > > does --update --deep do this and would --update --deep world or > > system do this? > > > > 3) Where are the packages listed for system? For instance I > > installed coldplug and it installed pciutils, but that package is > > not listed in world -- should it be? Or is it a system package? > > > > OK, that's it for now -- thanks much in advance for your help. > > > > > > 1) "emerge -ep world" should list all currently installed packages > 2) yes, "emerge -uD world" keeps your system up-todate > 3) "emerge -ep system" gives you the base system packages. In the > example you gave "pciutils" is installed as a depandecy. Following this > case if yu decide to uninstall coldplug ( "emerge -C coldplug") then > "pciutils" would remain in your system as an orphaned package. Use > "emerge --depclean" to remove such packages. > > I'm kindly recommending you to read *"man emerge"*, "man portage", "man > make.conf". > > -- > Best regards, > Daniel > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list