Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Packages with Portage

[Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 4 May 2009 13:11:02 +0100
Matt Causey <matt.causey@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 
> Along the same lines, how does the ebuild know what to remove on
> --unmerge?  For example I'm wandering around and looking at ebuilds:
> 
> prometheus ethtool # pwd
> /usr/portage/sys-apps/ethtool
> prometheus ethtool # ls
> ChangeLog  Manifest  ethtool-6.ebuild  metadata.xml
> prometheus ethtool #
> 
> I see nothing in that ebuild which describes the files that ethtool
> put on the system.  Yet an --unmerge removes the binaries and
> source....interesting.
> 
> So I found a CONTENTS file:
> 
> prometheus ethtool-6 # pwd
> /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/ethtool-6
> prometheus ethtool-6 # cat CONTENTS
> dir /usr
> dir /usr/sbin

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Another way to check which files are installed by a given package
and to which package a given file belongs.

emerge app-portage/portage-utils (if you haven't already)

Example:

~ $ qlist ethtool
/usr/share/man/man8/ethtool.8.bz2
/usr/share/doc/ethtool-6/AUTHORS.bz2
/usr/share/doc/ethtool-6/ChangeLog.bz2
/usr/share/doc/ethtool-6/NEWS.bz2
/usr/share/doc/ethtool-6/README.bz2
/usr/sbin/ethtool
~ $

~ $ qfile ethtool
sys-apps/ethtool (/usr/sbin/ethtool)
~ $

~ $ qlist nvidia-drivers | grep /lib/modules
/lib/modules/2.6.28-core2/video/nvidia.ko
~ $

HTH



-- 
Best regards,
Daniel