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> I'm new to Gentoo. I come from FreeBSD. I have to run Gentoo in |
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> this particular case because I need an asterisk box and asterisk runs |
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> better on Linux than FreeBSD. |
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Sad. OSS software should be platform independent (expecially if both |
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OSes are Unix-like). |
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> That being said, I must say that I am very impressed with Gentoo. It's |
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> far superior to RedHat, which was the last Linux experience I had. |
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<flame>Not surprising, being RH maybe the worst Linux experience |
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possible. Linux fortunately is not RH, and is much better.</flame> |
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> 2) pkg_version -- summarize installed versions of packages. Outputs |
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> what newer ports are available to what versions are actually |
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> installed. I've looked through the emerge and ebuild docs, but I can't |
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> find anything that operates the same way. |
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emerge --deep --update --pretend --verbose world |
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If you want info about packages etc. I advice you to emerge gentoolkit |
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(a collection of useful tools for Portage) and eix (a FAST tool for |
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querying the Portage database). |
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> 3) portaudit(1) -- system to check installed packages for known |
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> vulnerabilities. |
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If you want to be aware of security issues & updates, subscribe the |
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gentoo-announce mailing list. If it's something actively doing testing |
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on packages, well, I don't know. |
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m. |
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