Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Damon M. Conway" <damon@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] minor update problem
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 21:55:37
Message-Id: 20020109035537.05DA5255A3@chiba.3jane.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] minor update problem by spooq@yahoo.com
1 spooq@×××××.com wrote:
2 >Hello,
3 >
4 >Ive upgraded my system using emerge update, and now it seems
5 >that I have a lot of old packages that I cant uninstall because the
6 >ebuilds have disappeared! Even after rsyncing they dont reappear.
7
8 The ebuild files are stored in /var/db/pkg/<category>/<app>-<ver>/. To
9 unmerge a package do:
10
11 ebuild /var/db/pkg/<category>/<app>-<ver>/<app>-<ver>.ebuild
12
13 kabau
14
15 --
16 "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
17 would also stop you from doing clever things." --Doug Gwyn

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Re: [gentoo-dev] minor update problem Luke <spooq@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] minor update problem charles Kerr <charles@×××××××××××.org>