From: Xavier Parizet <xav@gentooist.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:55:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A96660F.5040103@gentooist.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e6572060908270324y5a2226f1v91e03e9ceaa1c03b@mail.gmail.com>
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Mickaël Bucas a écrit :
>
> You may find some useful informations in /var/log/emerge.log : all lines
> containing ":::" show a succesful emerge.
>
> If you have kept the contents of this file since you installed your
> system, you could then get the list of all packages you have installed.
> It would be a start that you could cleanup afterwards. However, this
> will include system packages and dependencies. And if you have
> uninstalled many packages (as with any update), they would also still be
> present in that list.
>
Thanks for the tip :) Now, is it mandatory to run emerge <package> to get the
/var/db/pkg/<package> thinks, or just do something like emerge --noreplace
<package> will do the trick ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-27 9:07 [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 9:25 ` Dale
2009-08-27 9:40 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 9:47 ` Dale
2009-08-27 9:56 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 10:01 ` Dale
2009-08-27 10:14 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 10:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-08-27 10:15 ` Xavier Parizet
2009-08-27 10:24 ` Mickaël Bucas
2009-08-27 10:55 ` Xavier Parizet [this message]
2009-08-29 15:33 ` Alan McKinnon
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