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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc.
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:28:01
Message-Id: 20010511222801.C20261@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about portage, etc. by Justus Pendleton
1 On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:21:53AM -0400, Justus Pendleton wrote:
2
3 > rsync -avz rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86-portage/* /usr/portage
4 >
5 > It doesn't affect already installed packages in any way whatsoever.
6 > All it does it update your portage area. Then you can do ebuilds or
7 > whatever and update whatever packages you want to update.
8
9 If you have a recent version of Portage installed, you can also type:
10
11 # emerge rsync
12
13 (it'll do the same thing)
14
15 "emerge rsync clean" will remove stale ebuilds as well.
16
17 Best Regards,
18
19 --
20 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
21 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
22 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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