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From: Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 07:19:49
Message-Id: 20010512072757.1374c692.erichey2@home.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc. by Daniel Robbins
1 On Fri, 11 May 2001 22:28:01 -0600 Daniel Robbins
2 <drobbins@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:21:53AM -0400, Justus Pendleton
5 > wrote:
6 >
7 > > rsync -avz rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86-portage/*
8 > /usr/portage
9 > >
10 > > It doesn't affect already installed packages in any way
11 > whatsoever.
12 > > All it does it update your portage area. Then you can do
13 > ebuilds or
14 > > whatever and update whatever packages you want to update.
15 >
16 > If you have a recent version of Portage installed, you can
17 > also type:
18 >
19 > # emerge rsync
20 >
21 > (it'll do the same thing)
22 >
23 > "emerge rsync clean" will remove stale ebuilds as well.
24 >
25 >
26
27 What is a stale ebuild?
28
29 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc. AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)