On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:30:07 +0200, Henry Gebhardt wrote: > > > It hasn't been mentioned yet, but ebuilds of all installed packages can > > be found in /var/db/pkg/<category>/<pkg>-<ver>/<pkg>-<ver>.ebuild. > > emerge --sync can mess around with /usr/portage all it wants, your > > ebuilds will still be there until you unmerge the package. Right? > > Right, but only the ebuilds, not any other files needed to re-emerge the > package, such as patches stored in the portage tree. For those, you'd > have to go to the CVS attic if the package have been removed from the > main portage tree. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Neil, Do you know of a source for the unsupported & hence deleted profiles? I'm wandering around in the CVS attic. I don't see them, presumably because they aren't something that was ever in portage, but the attic is pretty deep and they could possibly be there in some section I haven't noticed yet.. Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
