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From: jasonm@××××××××.ca
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] emerge --pretend update questions.
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:55:47
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.33.0108231439140.25758-100000@berkeley.indosoft.unb.ca
1 hi,
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3 hopefully this will be my one and only stupid question on this list. :)
4
5 i'm trying for a better understanding of the output from:
6 $emerge --pretend update
7
8 when executed on my current system, i see many lines of this:
9 [ebuild U] sys-apps/tar-1.13.19-r1 to /
10 [ebuild U] sys-apps/sh-utils-2.0j-r4 to /
11 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/watchpid-0.1-r1 to /
12 [ebuild N ] app-editors/nano-1.0.3-r1 to /
13 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r2 to /
14 [ebuild U] sys-apps/grep-2.4.2-r4 to /
15 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.0-r2 to /
16 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13-r2 to /
17 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/automake-1.4-r2 to /
18
19 Q1: what does the R stand for? i'm pretty sure i understand N and U, and
20 my first guess for R would be 'remove'.
21
22 lets say i:
23 $cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/grep
24 $emerge grep-2.4.2-r4.ebuild
25 $ebuild /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/grep-2.4.2-r3/grep-2.4.2-r3.ebuild unmerge
26 $emerge --pretend update | grep grep
27 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/grep-2.4.2-r4 to /
28
29 Q2: porque?
30
31 the answer to Q1 will likely explain Q2, i'm hoping. :)
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35 thanks,
36 j