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 something similar to "rpm -qa". > > At the end of this > section--http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml#doc_chap3--in > the Portage user manual it indicates that there's an > app-admin/gentoolkit to assist with Portage queries. I have yet to find > this package or a way to query the Portage database. > > Can anyone direct me to the package or tools that I need in order to do > this?
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 me to filter those items marked that way... Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
