Hi,
I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge --unmerge). How
do I tell emerge that a package is not installed (even if it is)? (I
basically need to force a reinstall, for a catalyst issue.)
Another good question is: how does portage know that a package is
actually installed?
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Lanza Fabrizio wrote:
I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge --unmerge).
not supported
How
do I tell emerge that a package is not installed (even if it is)? (I
basically need to force a reinstall, for a catalyst issue.)
you unmerge it ... if
portage maintains installed package information in /var/db/pkg/ -mike
Thanks, I will try this. If I delete the package info there, will
portage thing that the package is not installed, right?
Er, manually meaning 'I want to delete anything it installed by hand'?
or 'I want to run the phases by
On 2/14/08, Lanza Fabrizio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I cannot issue a direct emerge command because catalyst does not support
it.
If the stage supports it you can use N/fsscript. Or if you want to
unmerge the package at the beginning of the loop you could modify
