[gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

[gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

[KH]

Hi,

I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace <atom>. I forgot
-1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong
there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run
--unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do?

kh

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

[AllenJB]

 From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is 
not present in any previous version.

Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually 
edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!)

AllenJB

KH wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace <atom>. I forgot
> -1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong
> there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run
> --unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do?
> 
> kh
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

[Dale]

AllenJB wrote:
> From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is
> not present in any previous version.
>
> Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually
> edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!)
>
> AllenJB
>

I have done this a few times as well and it worked fine.  Just leave it
nice and clean, remove the whole line instead of leaving a blank line.

Also, some nerd seems to have made it in alphabetical order too.  It
should be easy to find. 

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

[KH]

Dale schrieb:
> AllenJB wrote:
>> From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is
>> not present in any previous version.
>>
>> Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually
>> edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!)
>>
>> AllenJB
>>
> 
> I have done this a few times as well and it worked fine.  Just leave it
> nice and clean, remove the whole line instead of leaving a blank line.
> 
> Also, some nerd seems to have made it in alphabetical order too.  It
> should be easy to find. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 
Hi,

thanks for the answer. One more question: Where exactly is the world
file? Is it in /var/db/pkg/ ?

kh

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

[Xavier Parizet]

On Tue, 05 May 2009 10:00:40 +0200, KH <gentoo-user@konstantinhansen.de>
wrote:
> Dale schrieb:
>> AllenJB wrote:
>>> From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is
>>> not present in any previous version.
>>>
>>> Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually
>>> edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!)
>>>
>>> AllenJB
>>>
>> 
>> I have done this a few times as well and it worked fine.  Just leave it
>> nice and clean, remove the whole line instead of leaving a blank line.
>> 
>> Also, some nerd seems to have made it in alphabetical order too.  It
>> should be easy to find. 
>> 
>> Dale
>> 
>> :-)  :-)
>> 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the answer. One more question: Where exactly is the world
> file? Is it in /var/db/pkg/ ?

/var/lib/portage/world

> 
> kh

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Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009 09:44:58 KH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace <atom>. I forgot
> -1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong
> there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run
> --unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do?

vi /var/lib/portage/world

followed by intelligent use of the "/" and "dd" functions in vi :-)

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

[solved][gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

[KH]

Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> 
> vi /var/lib/portage/world
> 
> followed by intelligent use of the "/" and "dd" functions in vi :-)
> 

rofl