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 1FnnRK-0003Ab-21 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:06:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5724lAG023207; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 02:04:47 GMT Received: from mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (mxo1.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k571v6gp023365 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 01:57:06 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.4] (unknown [207.68.230.60]) by mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5E031423D for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:57:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4486326D.8060407@vista-express.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:57:01 -0500 From: Teresa and Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060518 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] checking local packages against portage References: <1149639467.14941.65.camel@sysconcept.ca> <448628B2.5070201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <448628B2.5070201@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 808870a3-5b9a-40e6-a596-aaa753c0ba75 X-Archives-Hash: 1195ce182da8f8cf18a1df6b0657c370 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 :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list