emerge blasphemy

drjimmy42 · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Nashua, NH

I know this may sound blasphemous, but I am using gentoo for the fist time and finding myself missing some package management features from rpm. I decided to ask here because I'm sure that there is an answer.

I am looking for emerge equivalents of queries on packages. The closest I have found is emerge -s ^somethign$ and that tells me the version available, which one is installed (if any) and a breif description. That's great, but there are some other useful peices of information that I would like, such as:

- a list of all of the files in a particular package
- a list of all installed packages
- being able to ask to what package a particular file belongs
as in rpm -qf /usr/lib/librandomlib.so.4

That's all I can think of for now. So is this information available somewhere.

Thanks for the help.

drjimmy42 · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Nashua, NH

And while someone might be answering, can anyone tell me how to pass --options to the configure script when emerge is compiling something.

For example, I need to add --enable-gui to mplayer.

Anyone, anyone..... Beuller?

pilla · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 2:02 am Post subject:

emerge epm

it has a rpm-like sintax. Gentoolkit has also a qpkg script.
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pilla · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 2:03 am Post subject:

For this, take a look at the documentation for USE flags. For mplayer, I think it needs USE="gtk" for a gui. Be sure you emerged gtk before.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

drjimmy42 · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Nashua, NH

absolutely perfect. qpkg is exactly what I wanted and epm is like a stepping stone from rpm syntax. This distro absolutely rocks. Nice job everyone.

Thanks for the USE tip too.

drjimmy42 · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Nashua, NH

I'm a dope. I get it. I'll search next time

paul138 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Ottawa, ON

And if you dont like messing around with the use flags too much, emerge 'ufed' and give it a run.

Personally, I'm happy on my vacation from RPM

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