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From: Xavier Parizet <xav@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:46:10
Message-Id: 4A96660F.5040103@gentooist.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db by "Mickaël Bucas"
1 Mickaël Bucas a écrit :
2 >
3 > You may find some useful informations in /var/log/emerge.log : all lines
4 > containing ":::" show a succesful emerge.
5 >
6 > If you have kept the contents of this file since you installed your
7 > system, you could then get the list of all packages you have installed.
8 > It would be a start that you could cleanup afterwards. However, this
9 > will include system packages and dependencies. And if you have
10 > uninstalled many packages (as with any update), they would also still be
11 > present in that list.
12 >
13
14 Thanks for the tip :) Now, is it mandatory to run emerge <package> to get the
15 /var/db/pkg/<package> thinks, or just do something like emerge --noreplace
16 <package> will do the trick ?
17
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19 Xavier Parizet
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Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerating package db Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>