How to find all emerged packages at version 9999?

jeffk · Guru Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 568

Is there an efficient way to find all emerged packages at version 9999?

I lose track of seldom-used ones, and would like the list so I can remind myself to update periodically, or downgrade to a stable release version.

Thanks.

John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject:

Genone · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:53 pm Post subject:

John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:56 pm Post subject:

Yes, I did. That's what the -e does: enables patterns to start with a dash. However, upon further inspection, the search pattern is overly restrictive as some live ebuilds have versions of the form "x.y.9999", so, as the pattern has changed, you no longer need the -e:

yngwin · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:57 pm Post subject:

I think what you want is a feature that is already implemented in portage-2.2:

jeffk · Guru Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 568

The behavior of equery list apparently has changed:

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

d2_racing · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:49 pm Post subject:

In fact qlist handle pretty well that kind of stuff.
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MarcusXP · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:04 am Post subject:

I know its an old topic but I am trying to achieve the same thing...
actually I want to run a command to update all my 9999 packages...

I tried this, but doesn't work:

MarcusXP · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:08 am Post subject:

I found this command on another thread, it seems to be working fine:
emerge -av `find /var/db/pkg/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -name \*-9999|awk -F \/ '{printf "=%s/%s ", $5, $6}'`

however, using "qlist -Iv" should be fater than this (which uses the find command on the filesystem), any suggestions how to make that work?

DaggyStyle · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 4763

MarcusXP · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:39 am Post subject:

I had no idea this command existed

Yet it does.. and seems useful.. thanks for the tip!

Anyways, I figured how to use qlist in the meanwhile.. for whom it may still be interested:

DaggyStyle · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 4763

check qatom instead of sed.
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MarcusXP · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:22 am Post subject:

Good suggestion, I didn't know about this command either.
However, it seems that it requires a bit more work than using sed... because it splits the whole package name in three, so I have to use the middle one or join the first two, with "/" between them...

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Ant P. · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1990 Location: UK

Depending on how far you're willing to diverge from vanilla portage, paludis has a "--reinstall-scm" switch built in too (which also catches -99999999 versions and is smart about only rebuilding once a day/week).

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3067

Why remove the 9999 stuff? Simply prepend with =

khayyam · Veteran Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Posts: 1307

.... or similarly with awk ...

proteusx · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 29