Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

[Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com>]

Ryan Tandy wrote:

> Joseph wrote:
>
>> Recently I found out that I had an old package "avifile" installed on my
>> system but it was no longer in portage.
>> How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer
>> available in portage (so I can remove them)?
>>
>
> /usr/sbin/emaint --check


Well, I thought that was neat until I got this:

> root@smoker / # emaint --check
> usage: emaint [options] all | world
>
> Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world
> file.  Future versions will integrate other portage check-and-fix
> tools and provide a single interface to system health checks.
>
> emaint: error: Incorrect number of arguments
> root@smoker / #


In case it matters:

> root@smoker / # emerge -pv portage
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.54-r2  -build +doc (-selinux) 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> root@smoker / #


What's up with that?

Dale
:-)  :-) 


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