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On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix |
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> > a problem I'm having. These are ones that have been made for |
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> > my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from |
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> > the system. |
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> > My question: how to clean up when I'm done? A cursory look at |
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> > the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no |
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> > metadata. How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them? |
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> There is metadata appended to the end of the file. If you try unpacking |
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> one, you'll see a warning about extraneous data, this is the metadata. |
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> > Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata? |
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> What's wrong with installing with portage? Provided the packages are in |
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> $PKGDIR, you can install with "emerge --usepkgonly packagename". You can |
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> then unmerge in the usual way. |
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> If the package is one that prevents you from using portage, unpack it to |
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> the root of your filesystem, then immediately use the above command to |
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> emerge it properly. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Failure is not an option...it is integrated with every Microsoft product. |
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Another killer .signature. Is it optimistic? |
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Anyway, thanks. This will do very nicely for me because I'll be using |
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created by portage. However, I'm not sure I got what you're talking about |
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last paragraph. Unpacking to the root would pollute everything, no? Then |
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do I get a clean unmerge. Just for curiosity -- as I said, I don't think I |
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need it for this. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |