Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
On Friday 20 January 2006 19:44, Phil Sexton wrote: Michael A Smith wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't that a superfluous use of cat? Why not less /var/lib/portage/world -Mike Oops! I was actually thinking: sort /var/lib/portage/world|less This gives the listing in alphabetical order, what I previously posted doesn't alphabetize it. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html No, no. You have gotten it all wrong. /var/lib/portage/world lists only manually installed packages. e.g.: If you do not have X installed and do emerge gnome X will be pulled in as a dependency, along with a whole lot of other stuff, but only gnome will be written in world, because that is the package you manually emerged. This is why in order upgrade your whole system you have to do emerge -u -D world. -D makes emerge check for the given packages' dependencies as well. Though this means, that if you have a package installed, that is not listed in world, nor is a dependency of anything in world, it will never get picked up by portage. It has been stated, that the devs will probably implement an all keyword in portage, at some point, so that one can more efficiently check for updates to all packages, instead of only those in world and their dependencies. To answer the original question: Portage keeps information about all emerged pacakges in /var/db/pkg . -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Dimitar Toshev wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 19:44, Phil Sexton wrote: Michael A Smith wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't that a superfluous use of cat? Why not less /var/lib/portage/world -Mike Oops! I was actually thinking: sort /var/lib/portage/world|less This gives the listing in alphabetical order, what I previously posted doesn't alphabetize it. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html No, no. You have gotten it all wrong. /var/lib/portage/world lists only manually installed packages. e.g.: If you do not have X installed and do emerge gnome X will be pulled in as a dependency, along with a whole lot of other stuff, but only gnome will be written in world, because that is the package you manually emerged. This is why in order upgrade your whole system you have to do emerge -u -D world. -D makes emerge check for the given packages' dependencies as well. Though this means, that if you have a package installed, that is not listed in world, nor is a dependency of anything in world, it will never get picked up by portage. It has been stated, that the devs will probably implement an all keyword in portage, at some point, so that one can more efficiently check for updates to all packages, instead of only those in world and their dependencies. To answer the original question: Portage keeps information about all emerged pacakges in /var/db/pkg . nit-pickDon't you mean all compiled packages rather than emerged packages?/nit-pick As I understand it, all emerged packages are listed in the world file, and all packages that are installed and compiled dependencies are listed in the /var/db/pkg file. It wasn't completely clear to me which was meant by installed and I took it as the packages installed by emerging them. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't that a superfluous use of cat? Why not less /var/lib/portage/world -Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Michael A Smith wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't that a superfluous use of cat? Why not less /var/lib/portage/world -Mike Oops! I was actually thinking: sort /var/lib/portage/world|less This gives the listing in alphabetical order, what I previously posted doesn't alphabetize it. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Packages list
Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Check out man equery. On Thursday January 19 2006 19:25, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe this will list all installed packages: equery list Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
