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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:22:39
Message-Id: 4398A29C.6000508@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage by Harry Putnam
1 Harry Putnam wrote:
2
3 >I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is
4 >missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still
5 >there but installed onder /opt I think it was.
6 >
7 >gentoolkit still shows the manpage but not the tool.
8 >
9 >Lacking qpkg, I'm using equery like:
10 >
11 >equery -C list -i
12 >
13 >It ouputs a couple of fields before the package like:
14 >
15 >[I--][ ]
16 >or
17 >[I--][M ]
18 >
19 >But it isn't explained in the very brief manpage what this means.
20 >
21 >
22 >
23 Check these two places:
24
25 > /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg
26 > /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r3/qpkg
27
28
29 I think the first one is the right one though. You do have to give the
30 whole path. It is not "supported" anymore, from what I have read anyway.
31
32 Dale
33 :-)
34
35
36 --
37 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
38
39 I have four rigs:
40
41 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.
42 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
43 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.
44 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.
45
46 All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
47
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