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From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 08:09:13
Message-Id: 3AFD3D1A.7EEBFD0D@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc. by Collins Richey
1 Collins Richey wrote:
2 >
3 > On Fri, 11 May 2001 22:28:01 -0600 Daniel Robbins
4 > <drobbins@g.o> wrote:
5 >
6 > > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:21:53AM -0400, Justus Pendleton
7 > > wrote:
8 > >
9 > > > rsync -avz rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86-portage/*
10 > > /usr/portage
11 > > >
12 > > > It doesn't affect already installed packages in any way
13 > > whatsoever.
14 > > > All it does it update your portage area. Then you can do
15 > > ebuilds or
16 > > > whatever and update whatever packages you want to update.
17 > >
18 > > If you have a recent version of Portage installed, you can
19 > > also type:
20 > >
21 > > # emerge rsync
22 > >
23 > > (it'll do the same thing)
24 > >
25 > > "emerge rsync clean" will remove stale ebuilds as well.
26 > >
27 > >
28 >
29 > What is a stale ebuild?
30
31 A package that was removed from the rsync server.
32
33 achim~
34
35 >
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