On Saturday 12 Jul 2003 22:13, Dan Foster wrote: > 1. emerge is missing one key function -- I say key, because we can't > consider deploying Gentoo as the OS of choice for x86 servers > unless it has this feature: the ability to see what ebuilds were > installed on the system and what version they are.
Look in /var/log/portage/ and /var/log/emerge.log > > Package management is extremely important to us in the server > arena because it represents the bulk of our long-term maintenance for > both by hand and with our extensive automated tools which figures out > what stuff to install based on what currently is installed. > Currently, the argument is to use Debian instead of Gentoo because of > missing bits related to package management such as this. I suck at > coding or I'd contribute something, but I could take a shot at it. Loads of stuff for doing that. emerge gentoolkit and epm. > Peter -- ================================================== Gentoo Linux: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1 kernel-2.4.22_pre2-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ ================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
