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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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equery list will do that I think. emerge gentoolkit to get that |
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command, if you haven't already. |
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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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Yup, emerge -uvD world should do that. Actually, that is how I update |
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mine too. It has worked so far. There is some debate about it though. |
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Some leave out the -D part. |
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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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I'll give a example. If you emerge Seamonkey. It will pull in a few to |
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a lot of dependencies. Only Seamonkey will be listed in world though. |
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The name of the package you actually put in the emerge command is listed |
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in the world file, not all the dependencies. The -D in the update |
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should take care of those though as far as keeping them updated. |
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> OK, that's it for now -- thanks much in advance for your help. |
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You welcome. I hope I helped. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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