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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fmc2S-0008K9-DQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:44:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k53JgKv2026475; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:42:20 GMT Received: from aa004msg.fastwebnet.it (aa004msg.fastwebnet.it [213.140.2.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k53JZfAA026521 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:35:41 GMT Received: from ms004msg.fastwebnet.it (10.31.40.142) by aa004msg.fastwebnet.it (7.2.069.1) id 447C202E001E3EC9 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:35:41 +0200 Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by ms004msg.fastwebnet.it (7.2.070) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 443D25F8018FA68B for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:35:41 +0200 Message-ID: <44820569.4080603@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:55:53 +0000 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060429) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features? References: <399397AA-0B32-46CA-AB69-E5CA54189CC5@lixfeld.ca> In-Reply-To: <399397AA-0B32-46CA-AB69-E5CA54189CC5@lixfeld.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e45d1985-faa5-4b1c-b7f5-fb2d3cc79781 X-Archives-Hash: 21bedcd8508c5f52d52c2a23dea86224 > I'm new to Gentoo. I come from FreeBSD. I have to run Gentoo in > this particular case because I need an asterisk box and asterisk runs > better on Linux than FreeBSD. Sad. OSS software should be platform independent (expecially if both OSes are Unix-like). > That being said, I must say that I am very impressed with Gentoo. It's > far superior to RedHat, which was the last Linux experience I had. Not surprising, being RH maybe the worst Linux experience possible. Linux fortunately is not RH, and is much better. > 2) pkg_version -- summarize installed versions of packages. Outputs > what newer ports are available to what versions are actually > installed. I've looked through the emerge and ebuild docs, but I can't > find anything that operates the same way. emerge --deep --update --pretend --verbose world If you want info about packages etc. I advice you to emerge gentoolkit (a collection of useful tools for Portage) and eix (a FAST tool for querying the Portage database). > 3) portaudit(1) -- system to check installed packages for known > vulnerabilities. If you want to be aware of security issues & updates, subscribe the gentoo-announce mailing list. If it's something actively doing testing on packages, well, I don't know. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list