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 1FqFPH-0006XV-OW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:22:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5DKKGdG027883; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:20:16 GMT Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5DK8voH014633 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:08:58 GMT Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id z3so1698605nzf for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:08:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=fzyvldjG2UzJFM0BVgt+rX7kum6C5FWdknPUKl9Ye1QLEoSwYJDJr9Vb9D57r17h0tN4BjVx8k0SJ5SVYzzamp6tcrjar6UqI7Ka2Amb+71I6j/WcfiFUPcr4CeXuFPCYx5oX9qx61LzHGlzt4IKs5JyOQHUOf4eCPTjmJfO0+E= Received: by 10.36.46.19 with SMTP id t19mr1823614nzt; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.22.74 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:08:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9acccfe50606131308l4fbdfa6fx44d793f7c812f041@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:08:56 -0700 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages In-Reply-To: <20060613181003.166cf10d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_494_32487331.1150229336966" References: <9acccfe50606130940o34c975f5kf44ccb290f93be45@mail.gmail.com> <20060613181003.166cf10d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: d1c776bd-7fc0-4b47-beff-949ff91fe09d X-Archives-Hash: 074f52c02cb631881bb6dbc0e0ef14f2 ------=_Part_494_32487331.1150229336966 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix > > a problem I'm having. These are ones that have been made for > > my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from > > the system. > > > > My question: how to clean up when I'm done? A cursory look at > > the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no > > metadata. How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them? > > There is metadata appended to the end of the file. If you try unpacking > one, you'll see a warning about extraneous data, this is the metadata. > > > Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata? > > What's wrong with installing with portage? Provided the packages are in > $PKGDIR, you can install with "emerge --usepkgonly packagename". You can > then unmerge in the usual way. > > If the package is one that prevents you from using portage, unpack it to > the root of your filesystem, then immediately use the above command to > emerge it properly. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Failure is not an option...it is integrated with every Microsoft product. Another killer .signature. Is it optimistic? Anyway, thanks. This will do very nicely for me because I'll be using packages created by portage. However, I'm not sure I got what you're talking about in that last paragraph. Unpacking to the root would pollute everything, no? Then how do I get a clean unmerge. Just for curiosity -- as I said, I don't think I need it for this. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD ------=_Part_494_32487331.1150229336966 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix
> a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for
> my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from
> the system.
>
> My question: how to clean up when I'm done?  A cursory look at
> the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no
> metadata.  How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them?

There is metadata appended to the end of the file. If you try unpacking
one, you'll see a warning about extraneous data, this is the metadata.

> Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata?

What's wrong with installing with portage? Provided the packages are in
$PKGDIR, you can install with "emerge --usepkgonly packagename". You can
then unmerge in the usual way.

If the package is one that prevents you from using portage, unpack it to
the root of your filesystem, then immediately use the above command to
emerge it properly.


--
Neil Bothwick

Failure is not an option...it is integrated with every Microsoft product.

Another killer .signature.  Is it optimistic?

Anyway, thanks.  This will do very nicely for me because I'll be using packages
created by portage.  However, I'm not sure I got what you're talking about in that
last paragraph.  Unpacking to the root would pollute everything, no?  Then how
do I get a clean unmerge.  Just for curiosity -- as I said, I don't think I need it for this.

++ kevin




--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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