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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:28:46
Message-Id: 20080427232839.646a1f86@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles? by Henry Gebhardt
1 On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:30:07 +0200, Henry Gebhardt wrote:
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3 > It hasn't been mentioned yet, but ebuilds of all installed packages can
4 > be found in /var/db/pkg/<category>/<pkg>-<ver>/<pkg>-<ver>.ebuild.
5 > emerge --sync can mess around with /usr/portage all it wants, your
6 > ebuilds will still be there until you unmerge the package. Right?
7
8 Right, but only the ebuilds, not any other files needed to re-emerge the
9 package, such as patches stored in the portage tree. For those, you'd
10 have to go to the CVS attic if the package have been removed from the
11 main portage tree.
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15 Neil Bothwick
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17 Forget the Joneses...I can't keep up with The Simpsons.

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