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From: Urs Schuetz <u.schutz@×××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:37:25
Message-Id: 20090805113652.GA5408@myre-laptop.10.1.1.1
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages? by felix@crowfix.com
1 On 04/08/09, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and
3 > updated packages. At some point a year ago or so, it disappeared. I
4 > have long since forgotten its name.
5 >
6 > Is there some way to do this now? I could probably write some script
7 > to simply search /usr/portage for ebuilds which were modified or
8 > created since the last time it ran, but I can see it having a few
9 > false positives from other changes.
10 >
11
12 Run eix-sync to sync the package cache.
13
14 after that you could run
15
16 diff-eix /var/cache/eix.previous /var/cache/eix
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18 Urs