On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Maxim Vexler wrote: > How does it do it if I may ask ?
Under /var/db/pkg you will what looks like a Portage tree but really its just the tree where each package you have installed has its own folder, organized into the same categories, where each folder has files detailing how a package was installed. (The list of files is in the CONTENTS file for example). > I have a kinda wild idea, please tell me if it's even possible : > From the days of learning c I've became very familiar with the wonders > of the debugger, is there something similar in bash ? > What I intend to do is to launch an [emerge foo] & then see what it > actually doing, a "step by step tour" into the gentoo portage/ebuilds > world if you like, using a debugger. You could open another window/terminal/session and do tail -f /var/log/emerge.log to watch the main steps in an emerge. You could even do the steps yourself by using the ebuild command. > So is there any tool that can allow me to do this? or maybe there's > even more efficient way to learn gentoo's internal's that I am unaware > of ? The official docs are pretty good ;-) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2004.2/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=6 Also see: man ebuild man 5 ebuild man emerge etc etc. -- A. -- [email protected] mailing list
