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OK, thanks guys this get me going -- I think I will emerge the toolkit |
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and see what that gives me. |
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on Sunday 01/07/2007 Daniel Iliev(danny@××××××××.com) wrote |
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> John covici wrote: |
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> > Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type |
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> > distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge. |
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> > 1) Any way to get a package list as one line per package like |
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> > debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ? The --info gives info about |
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> > the system, but does not seem to give a list of packages. |
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> > 2) How do I ensure that all dependencies of a package are updated -- |
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> > does --update --deep do this and would --update --deep world or |
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> > system do this? |
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> > 3) Where are the packages listed for system? For instance I |
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> > installed coldplug and it installed pciutils, but that package is |
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> > not listed in world -- should it be? Or is it a system package? |
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> > OK, that's it for now -- thanks much in advance for your help. |
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> 1) "emerge -ep world" should list all currently installed packages |
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> 2) yes, "emerge -uD world" keeps your system up-todate |
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> 3) "emerge -ep system" gives you the base system packages. In the |
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> example you gave "pciutils" is installed as a depandecy. Following this |
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> case if yu decide to uninstall coldplug ( "emerge -C coldplug") then |
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> "pciutils" would remain in your system as an orphaned package. Use |
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> "emerge --depclean" to remove such packages. |
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> I'm kindly recommending you to read *"man emerge"*, "man portage", "man |
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> make.conf". |
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> Best regards, |
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> Daniel |
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