Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.

2006-01-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:52, Dale wrote: Still wish I had etcat though. :-( It is located here on my system. /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre2/deprecated/etcat/etcat If you like the script so much then just copy the script to somewhere safe, where portage cannot take it away from you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:26:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Me and equery are not the best of friends. What command will tell me the versions that are available, masked and all? I think it used to be etcat -v ppp and it will list them all. emerge eix update-eix eix ppp -- Neil Bothwick New:

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.

2006-01-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:26:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Me and equery are not the best of friends. What command will tell me the versions that are available, masked and all? I think it used to be etcat -v ppp and it will list them all. emerge eix update-eix eix ppp

[gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.

2006-01-19 Thread Dale
I used to use etcat to see all versions of a package that are available in portage. I would like to see what versions of ppp are available but etcat is no longer here. I guess portage took it out. I knew it was coming. I figure something out and then it is gone. =-O Me and equery are not the