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KarlisRepsons
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 Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:47 am Post subject: Files used by portage to store info about what's installed? |
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Hi there again,
being away from my gentoo machines I wonder how is the actual state of emerged packages reflected into filesystem by portage (not counting the installed files of course)? Can it be somehow easily described here or what online manuals should tell that in length?
Edit: or maybe I should ask: is man 5 portage omitting anything significant? |
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DirtyHairy
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Straight from the manpage: | Code: |
/var/cache/edb/
This directory is used to store internal portage cache files. The names and purpose of these files are not documented on purpose so as to keep down bitrot as
internals change. If you aren't working on portage internally, then the details most likely do not matter to you.
This entire directory can be safely deleted. It is highly recommended you do not do this however as it can be a time consuming process to generate them all again.
/var/db/pkg/
All installed package information is recorded here. If portage thinks you have a package installed, it is usually because it is listed here.
The format follows somewhat closely that of the portage tree. There is a directory for each category and a package-version subdirectory for each package you have
installed.
Inside each package directory are misc files that describe the installed contents of the package as well as build time information (so that the package can be
unmerged without needing the portage tree).
The exact file contents and format are not described here again so that things can be changed quickly. Generally though there is one file per environment variable
that "matters" (like CFLAGS) with the contents stored inside of it. Another common file is the CONTENTS file which lists the path and hashes of all objects that
the package installed onto your system.
/var/lib/portage/
config Hashes which are used to determine whether files in config protected directories have been modified since being installed. Files which have not been modi-
fied will automatically be unmerged.
world Every time you emerge a package, the package that you requested is recorded here. Then when you run `emerge world -up`, the list of packages is read from
this file. Note that this does not mean that the packages that were installed as dependencies are listed here. For example, if you run `emerge mod_wsgi`
and you do not have apache already, then "www-apache/mod_wsgi" is recorded in the world file but "www-servers/apache" is not. For more information, review
emerge(1).
Format:
- one DEPEND atom base per line
Example:
games-misc/fortune-mod-gentoo-dev
dev-libs/uclibc
app-cdr/cdemu
world_sets
This is like the world file but instead of package atoms it contains packages sets which always begin with the @ character.
Example:
@kde
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