Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-10 Thread kko
Maybe this could help http://www.karkomaonline.com/article.php?story=20030908215509618 specially if come from rpm world. On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:23, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. I've been looking for a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-10 Thread Leonid Podolny
Thomas Smith wrote: I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm looking for something similar to rpm -qa. rpm -qa is qpkg -I -v in our world.Mind the capital I. Welcome aboard. :) -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-10 Thread Anders Dahlqvist
..or emerge epm epm -qa Not that different ;=}) 2003-11-10 16.07 skrev Leonid Podolny: ::Thomas Smith wrote: :: :: :: :: I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine :: what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm :: looking for something

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-10 Thread Chris
how do you find out about the packages you compiled yourself, (conexant modem drivers) and the like? On Monday 10 November 2003 09:07 am, Leonid Podolny wrote: Thomas Smith wrote: I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-10 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:01:27 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do you find out about the packages you compiled yourself, (conexant modem drivers) and the like? for packages you download, untar, '(./configure | make )' make install : You don't. You have to use your

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-10 Thread Chris
cool thanks On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:19 am, Spider wrote: begin quote On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:01:27 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do you find out about the packages you compiled yourself, (conexant modem drivers) and the like? for packages you download, untar,

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:23, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 18:23, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Henti Smith
Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm looking for something similar to rpm -qa.

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Jiim
Hall Stevenson wrote: The best you'll get is the 'qpkg' program. Running qpkg by itself is supposed to return installed packages, but it appears to list everything in the portage database. Packages you have installed are marked with an *. Problem is, my limited knowledge of 'grep' doesn't allow

Re: [gentoo-user] Querying the Portage database

2003-11-09 Thread Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:53 am, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and their query tools. Welcome to the Gentoo community. I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine