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Dimitar Toshev wrote: |
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> On Friday 20 January 2006 19:44, Phil Sexton wrote: |
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>>Michael A Smith wrote: |
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>>>Phil Sexton wrote: |
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>>>>Felipe Ribeiro wrote: |
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>>>>>Where do I find the list with all installed packages? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>>Cheers, |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>>Felipe |
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>>>>The ones you emerged are listed in the file: |
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>>>>/var/lib/portage/world |
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>>>>Want it in alphabetical order? |
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>>>>cat /var/lib/portage/world|less |
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>>> |
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>>>Isn't that a superfluous use of cat? Why not |
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>>>less /var/lib/portage/world |
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>>>-Mike |
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>>Oops! I was actually thinking: |
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>>sort /var/lib/portage/world|less |
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>>This gives the listing in alphabetical order, what I previously |
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>>posted doesn't alphabetize it. |
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>>-- |
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>>Phil |
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>>My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info |
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>>Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy |
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>>Naomi's Fancy performances: |
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>>http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html |
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> No, no. You have gotten it all wrong. /var/lib/portage/world lists only |
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> manually installed packages. |
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> e.g.: If you do not have X installed and do |
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> emerge gnome |
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> X will be pulled in as a dependency, along with a whole lot of other stuff, |
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> but only gnome will be written in world, because that is the package you |
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> manually emerged. This is why in order upgrade your whole system you have to |
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> do emerge -u -D world. -D makes emerge check for the given packages' |
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> dependencies as well. Though this means, that if you have a package |
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> installed, that is not listed in world, nor is a dependency of anything in |
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> world, it will never get picked up by portage. It has been stated, that the |
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> devs will probably implement an "all" keyword in portage, at some point, so |
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> that one can more efficiently check for updates to all packages, instead of |
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> only those in world and their dependencies. |
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> To answer the original question: |
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> Portage keeps information about all emerged pacakges in /var/db/pkg . |
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<nit-pick>Don't you mean all compiled packages rather than |
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emerged packages?</nit-pick> |
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As I understand it, all emerged packages are listed in the world |
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file, and all packages that are installed and compiled |
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dependencies are listed in the /var/db/pkg file. |
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It wasn't completely clear to me which was meant by "installed" |
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and I took it as the packages installed by emerging them. |
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-- |
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Phil |
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My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info |
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Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy |
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Naomi's Fancy performances: |
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http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html |
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