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ninja
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 Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 2:05 am Post subject: emerge and rc-update questions |
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I have a few questions regarding emerge and rc-update. I know these are very newbie questions sorry for asking them 
1. How do i get a list of files added by rc-update?
2. How do i search for packages i've tried
but i get these error messages
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Searching... \portage: aux_get(): (1) couldn't open cache entry for app-admin/superadduser-1.0-r2
(likely caused by syntax error or corruption in the app-admin/superadduser-1.0-r2 ebuild.)
portage: aux_get(): (1) couldn't open cache entry for app-admin/superadduser-1.0-r2
(likely caused by syntax error or corruption in the app-admin/superadduser-1.erge and rc-update. I know these are very newbie questions sorry for asking them
1. How do i get a list of files added by rc-update?
2. How do i search for packages i've tried
Code:0-r2 ebuild.)
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3. What does this message mean?
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emerge --pretend media-video/ati-gatos/
These are the packages that I would merge, in order.
Calculating dependencies
emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy "media-video/ati-gatos" have been masked.
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Thanks for any help in advance |
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ebrostig
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Joined: 20 Jul 2002
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 2:14 am Post subject: Re: emerge and rc-update questions |
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| ninja wrote: | I have a few questions regarding emerge and rc-update. I know these are very newbie questions sorry for asking them
1. How do i get a list of files added by rc-update?
2. How do i search for packages i've tried
but i get these error messages
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Searching... \portage: aux_get(): (1) couldn't open cache entry for app-admin/superadduser-1.0-r2
(likely caused by syntax error or corruption in the app-admin/superadduser-1.0-r2 ebuild.)
portage: aux_get(): (1) couldn't open cache entry for app-admin/superadduser-1.0-r2
(likely caused by syntax error or corruption in the app-admin/superadduser-1.erge and rc-update. I know these are very newbie questions sorry for asking them
1. How do i get a list of files added by rc-update?
2. How do i search for packages i've tried
Code:0-r2 ebuild.)
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3. What does this message mean?
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emerge --pretend media-video/ati-gatos/
These are the packages that I would merge, in order.
Calculating dependencies
emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy "media-video/ati-gatos" have been masked.
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Thanks for any help in advance |
first:
emerge rsync
Then to search, use -s rather than -S (Linux is case-sensitive)
Masked packages has been discussed in probably around 100-200 threads, try to use the search forum. Or even read the Portage documentation.
Hint: edit /usr/poratge/profiles/package.mask
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 2:17 am Post subject: Re: emerge and rc-update questions |
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| ebrostig wrote: | | Then to search, use -s rather than -S (Linux is case-sensitive) |
emerge -S is a perfectly good way to search - it picks up more things than -s does, because it matches description fields as well as just package names.
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ninja
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 2:25 am Post subject: |
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thanks ebrostig i know linux is case sensitive, i'm new to Gentoo not Linux
rac :
how do i get a package description of a emerge file? I've already looked at man emerge and it didn't seem to have anything |
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ebrostig
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| ninja wrote: | | thanks ebrostig i know linux is case sensitive, i'm new to Gentoo not Linux |
Not only Linux/UNIX that is sensitive, I can see 
My bad, I was too quick rac is of course right!
| ninja wrote: | rac :
how do i get a package description of a emerge file? I've already looked at man emerge and it didn't seem to have anything |
You may try to do an emerge rsync if you haven't done so yet, I didn't get any errors during an emerge -S session.
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ninja
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 2:50 am Post subject: |
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thanks ebrostig
i did the emerge rsync and i don't get the errors any more thanks for your help  |
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| ninja wrote: |
rac:
how do i get a package description of a emerge file? |
Most ebuilds have something useful in the HOMEPAGE variable, and as I write this sentence I get the feeling I've written it before. See Package descriptions and change logs.
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