On 11/26/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where/how do you look at the portage tree in the full complement > of packages that are available or what's not in the portage tree? > Does one just look in /usr/portage/distfiles or some other special > directory, or is there a place where one can peruse the entire tree > regardless of what they have install on a gentoo system?
No, distfiles is wrong. That only shows you the source archives for things that you have installed. The entire tree is in /usr/portage. For example, all possible net-analyzer packages are /usr/portage/net-analyzer. "find /usr/portage -name '*.ebuild'" will show you all ebuilds in the tree, masked or not, installed or not. Compare this to what you actually have installed under /var/db/pkg. Also, the portage CVS tree can be viewed at: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=gentoo-x86 > I only said this because 'emerge -s jffnms' has previously shown > the package (in red) as masked. Plus this page was created: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html Ok, but view his blog here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/blog/ Notice the statement "...which I hope to add to portage in the near future". It is entirely possible (but incorrect) to place ebuilds downloaded manually into the /usr/portage tree. It is also possible (and correct) to place those ebuilds into PORTAGE_OVERLAY. You (or someone else with root access to the system) must have done one or the other on the system that shows it as available. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
