Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:40:05 +0100 Russ Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ash Varma wrote: So try: $ equery uses package_name eg. I keep saying this but nobody seems to listen. 'equery uses' only works for packages that you already have installed, which makes it far less useful than 'etcat uses' was, which worked with packages you haven't installed yet. You are wrong here. Example: $ equery uses Display USE flags for a given package Syntax: uses local-opts pkgspec local-opts is either of: -a, --all - include non-installed packages $ equery uses a2ps [ Searching for packages matching a2ps... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] !!! No installed packages found for a2ps $ equery uses -a a2ps [ Searching for packages matching a2ps... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] [ Found these USE variables for app-text/a2ps-4.13c-r2 ] U I + + nls : unknown + + tetex : Adds support for teTeX - - cjk : Adds support for Multi-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) - - vanilla : Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour Cheers, Renat pgpVQLhckk3fo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:40:05 +0100 Russ Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ash Varma wrote: So try: $ equery uses package_name eg. I keep saying this but nobody seems to listen. 'equery uses' only works for packages that you already have installed, which makes it far less useful than 'etcat uses' was, which worked with packages you haven't installed yet. You are wrong here. Example: $ equery uses Display USE flags for a given package Syntax: uses local-opts pkgspec local-opts is either of: -a, --all - include non-installed packages Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. Thanks for that. On a related issue, etcat has the very useful 'versions' command which lists all versions of the package in portage along with their masked/installed status. I can't find an equivalent in equery, but I'm now starting to wonder if it is there but undocumented. Any ideas? If I can find something to do that I can stop using etcat completely. :-) Thanks. -- Russ. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?
Russ Brown wrote: Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. $ equery uses --help Display USE flags for a given package Syntax: uses local-opts pkgspec local-opts is either of: -a, --all - include non-installed packages On a related issue, etcat has the very useful 'versions' command which lists all versions of the package in portage along with their masked/installed status. I can't find an equivalent in equery, but I'm now starting to wonder if it is there but undocumented. Any ideas? If I can find something to do that I can stop using etcat completely. :-) $ equery --help ... list(l) local-opts pkgspec - list all packages matching pkgspec ... $ equery list --help List all packages matching a query pattern Syntax: list local-opts pkgspec local-opts is either of: -i, --installed - search installed packages (default) -I, --exclude-installed - do not search installed packages -p, --portage-tree - also search in portage tree (/usr/portage) -o, --overlay-tree - also search in overlay tree (/usr/local/portage) $ equery list -p -o mplayer [ Searching for package 'mplayer' in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r4 (0) [-P-] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r3 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r3 (0) [-P-] [M~] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r4 (0) * overlay tree (/usr/local/portage) Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?
Christoph Gysin wrote: Russ Brown wrote: Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. $ equery uses --help Display USE flags for a given package Syntax: uses local-opts pkgspec local-opts is either of: -a, --all - include non-installed packages On a related issue, etcat has the very useful 'versions' command which lists all versions of the package in portage along with their masked/installed status. I can't find an equivalent in equery, but I'm now starting to wonder if it is there but undocumented. Any ideas? If I can find something to do that I can stop using etcat completely. :-) $ equery --help ... list(l) local-opts pkgspec - list all packages matching pkgspec ... $ equery list --help List all packages matching a query pattern Syntax: list local-opts pkgspec local-opts is either of: -i, --installed - search installed packages (default) -I, --exclude-installed - do not search installed packages -p, --portage-tree - also search in portage tree (/usr/portage) -o, --overlay-tree - also search in overlay tree (/usr/local/portage) $ equery list -p -o mplayer [ Searching for package 'mplayer' in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r4 (0) [-P-] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r3 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r3 (0) [-P-] [M~] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r4 (0) * overlay tree (/usr/local/portage) Christoph Nice one. $ etcat versions mplayer [ Results for search key : mplayer ] [ Candidate applications found : 7 ] Only printing found installed programs. * media-video/mplayer : [ ] 1.0_pre4-r7 (0) [M~ ] 1.0_pre5-r2 (0) [M~ ] 1.0_pre5-r3 (0) [M~ ] 1.0_pre5-r4 (0) [ I] 1.0_pre5-r5 (0) [M~ ] 1.0_pre6-r1 (0) [M~ ] 1.0_pre6-r2 (0) $ equery list -p -o mplayer [ Searching for package 'mplayer' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5 (0) * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r4 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r3 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r3 (0) [-P-] [M~] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r4 (0) More keypresses than the etcat form, and I prefer etcat's output format, but at least it's possible with equery. Man page still needs fixing though. ;-) Thanks for the help everyone! -- Russ. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 20:39 +0800, wrote: I learned I can use 'etcat use' if I don't know the meaning of the useflags. But the fact is I used gentoo for one year, everytime I get confused I will do 'etcat use' and I never got explanation of the use flags. Even the extremely complicated packages like mplayer and vlc both have no explanation on use flags. As well as big packages like xorg-x11. Is there anything wrong with my box? Can you give an example package that *has* explanation of the USE flags? So I can at least know 'etcat uses' *works* on some packages. $ etcat etcat (0.3.1) - Portage Information Extractor - By: Alastair Tse NOTICE: This tool will be phased out at some point in the future, please use equery instead. Bugs are still fixed, but new features won't be added. SNIP So try: $ equery uses package_name eg. $ equery uses mozilla-firefox [ Searching for packages matching mozilla-firefox... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] [ Found these USE variables for www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2-r1 ] U I + + java : Adds support for Java - - mozsvg : Enable SVG support in mozilla and firefox - - debug : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too + + java : Adds support for Java + + gnome : Adds GNOME support + + ldap : Adds LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) - - debug : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too - - xinerama : Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors - - xprint : Support for xprint, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/ - - moznoxft : Disable XFT support in mozilla (also firefox, thunderbird) - - mozdevelop : Enable features for web developers (e.g. Venkman) - - mozxmlterm : Enable mozilla's XML-based command-line terminal signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
