(Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:58:58 +0100) And Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > hi all,
> >
> > i have couple of emerge questions:
> >
> > - we can do an emerge inject <package name> to make portage think
> > that the package is already installed on the system.
> >
> > now, when i do an emerge -s <package name>, it tells me that the
> > package is already installed. is it possible to find out, whether
> > the package is _really_ installed, or there is just a stub sitting
> > somewhere, telling portage to just 'fake' it ?
>
> No emerge command, but you can look at
> /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package>-<version>, an injected package has
> _only_ the COUNTER file there while "normal" packages have a few more.
IMO, portage should indicate whether a package has been injected or properly
emerged. (in `emerge -s` and maybe in `emerge -p` too)
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