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On 11/26/05, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Where/how do you look at the portage tree in the full complement |
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> of packages that are available or what's not in the portage tree? |
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> Does one just look in /usr/portage/distfiles or some other special |
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> directory, or is there a place where one can peruse the entire tree |
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> regardless of what they have install on a gentoo system? |
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No, distfiles is wrong. That only shows you the source archives for |
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things that you have installed. |
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The entire tree is in /usr/portage. For example, all possible |
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net-analyzer packages are /usr/portage/net-analyzer. "find |
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/usr/portage -name '*.ebuild'" will show you all ebuilds in the tree, |
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masked or not, installed or not. Compare this to what you actually |
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have installed under /var/db/pkg. |
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Also, the portage CVS tree can be viewed at: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=gentoo-x86 |
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> I only said this because 'emerge -s jffnms' has previously shown |
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> the package (in red) as masked. Plus this page was created: |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html |
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Ok, but view his blog here: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/blog/ |
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Notice the statement "...which I hope to add to portage in the near future". |
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It is entirely possible (but incorrect) to place ebuilds downloaded |
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manually into the /usr/portage tree. It is also possible (and |
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correct) to place those ebuilds into PORTAGE_OVERLAY. |
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You (or someone else with root access to the system) must have done |
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one or the other on the system that shows it as available. |
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-Richard |
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