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On Friday 20 January 2006 04:31, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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> > Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> |
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> >> Thanks a lot for the replies, I managed to get qpkg working. |
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> >> |
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> >> However, it's very interesting that I asked for a way to achieve the |
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> >> functionality of a deprecated tool with the current tools. |
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> >> Everybody explained to me how to obtain the deprecated tool, yet |
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> >> nobody answered to "how to do this with the new tools". |
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> >> So, what is the reason for qpkg is deprecated, after all? |
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> >> |
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> >> Regards, |
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> >> Catalin |
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> > |
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> > I wonder the same thing about etcat. It's gone and I have no clue how |
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> > to find out what versions of ppp are available. The new equery makes no |
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> > sense to me. I have used it a couple times but I can not figure out how |
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> > to get it to tell me what all versions are in portage for ppp. I would |
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> > like to try ether a masked version or a older version, if I knew what |
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> > they were. |
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> |
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> This is an easy one :) |
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> equery l -p -o -i ppp |
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> > I wonder how long equery will last? I figure about the time I learn to |
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> > use it a bit, it will be gone too. This has been a bad week. |
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> > |
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> > Dale |
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> > |
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> > :-) |
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I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to do. My |
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solution is just to put a copy of qpkg and ecat in /usr/bin, and make a |
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backup copy somewhere for when it's no longer available (in gentoolkit, or a |
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new gentoo install). |
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