OK, thanks guys this get me going -- I think I will emerge the toolkit and see what that gives me.
on Sunday 01/07/2007 Daniel Iliev([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici wrote: > > Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type > > distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge. > > > > 1) Any way to get a package list as one line per package like > > debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ? The --info gives info about > > the system, but does not seem to give a list of packages. > > > > 2) How do I ensure that all dependencies of a package are updated -- > > does --update --deep do this and would --update --deep world or > > system do this? > > > > 3) Where are the packages listed for system? For instance I > > installed coldplug and it installed pciutils, but that package is > > not listed in world -- should it be? Or is it a system package? > > > > OK, that's it for now -- thanks much in advance for your help. > > > > > > 1) "emerge -ep world" should list all currently installed packages > 2) yes, "emerge -uD world" keeps your system up-todate > 3) "emerge -ep system" gives you the base system packages. In the > example you gave "pciutils" is installed as a depandecy. Following this > case if yu decide to uninstall coldplug ( "emerge -C coldplug") then > "pciutils" would remain in your system as an orphaned package. Use > "emerge --depclean" to remove such packages. > > I'm kindly recommending you to read *"man emerge"*, "man portage", "man > make.conf". > > -- > Best regards, > Daniel > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
