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?
Th
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
On 2/14/08, Lanza Fabrizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> I need to manually uninstall a package (without emerge --unmerge).
Er, manually meaning 'I want to delete anything it installed by hand'?
or 'I want to run the phases by hand'?
Why doesn't emerge -C work for this case?
> How do I
> 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 b
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
/usr/lib/catalyst/targets/st
