How to find all emerged packages at version 9999?

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jeffk · Post by **jeffk** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:46 pm

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.

Post by **John R. Graham** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:50 pm

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equery list -i | grep -e -9999

- John

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:53 pm

john_r_graham wrote:
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equery list -i | grep -e -9999

Did you test that? I've alwys had trouble when grepping for something starting with - (as grep treats it as an option). Not that it really matters here.

Post by **John R. Graham** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:56 pm

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:

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equery list -i | grep \[-.\]9999

- John

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:57 pm

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

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emerge -a @live-rebuild

jeffk · Post by **jeffk** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:37 am

The behavior of equery list apparently has changed:

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# equery list -i | grep -e -9999
!!! Default action for this module has changed in Gentoolkit 0.3.
!!! Use globbing to simulate the old behavior (see man equery).
!!! Use '*' to check all installed packages.
!!! Use 'foo-bar/*' to filter by category.

# equery list '*' | grep -e -9999

Thanks, this worked to produce the list I need. I'll probably start using the @live-rebuild set going forward.

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:02 am

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 # time equery list '*' | grep -e -9999
app-text/scrollkeeper-9999-r1

real    0m7.224s
user    0m7.073s
sys     0m0.141s

 # time qlist -Iv 9999
app-text/scrollkeeper-9999-r1

real    0m0.022s
user    0m0.018s
sys     0m0.001s

qlist is from app-portage/portage-utils

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:49 pm

In fact qlist handle pretty well that kind of stuff.

MarcusXP · Post by **MarcusXP** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:04 am

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:

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Storage ~ # emerge -av $(qlist -Iv 9999)
!!! 'net-libs/libktorrent-9999' is not a valid package atom.
!!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.

this is what "qlist -Iv 9999" returns:

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Storage ~ # qlist -Iv 9999
net-libs/libktorrent-9999
net-p2p/ktorrent-9999

everything seems right, but emerge doesn't like it... any ideas how to make it work? I think I may have to remove -9999 from every line so that emerge will work, but I'm not sure how to do that

MarcusXP · Post by **MarcusXP** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:08 am

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 · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:29 am

MarcusXP wrote: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:
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Storage ~ # emerge -av $(qlist -Iv 9999)
!!! 'net-libs/libktorrent-9999' is not a valid package atom.
!!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
this is what "qlist -Iv 9999" returns:
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Storage ~ # qlist -Iv 9999
net-libs/libktorrent-9999
net-p2p/ktorrent-9999
everything seems right, but emerge doesn't like it... any ideas how to make it work? I think I may have to remove -9999 from every line so that emerge will work, but I'm not sure how to do that

did you tried smart-live-rebuild?

MarcusXP · Post by **MarcusXP** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:39 am

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:

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emerge -av $(qlist -ICv 9999 | sed 's/.....$//')

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:14 am

check qatom instead of sed.

MarcusXP · Post by **MarcusXP** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:22 am

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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Storage ~ # qatom $(qlist -ICv 9999)
net-libs libktorrent 9999
net-p2p ktorrent 9999

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:05 am

MarcusXP wrote: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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Storage ~ # qatom $(qlist -ICv 9999)
net-libs libktorrent 9999
net-p2p ktorrent 9999

how about

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qatom $(qlist -ICv 9999) | awk '{ print "$1/$2"}'

?

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:00 pm

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 · Post by **ppurka** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:02 pm

Why remove the 9999 stuff? Simply prepend with =

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emerge -p $(qlist -ICv 9999 | sed 's/^/=/')

But I don't seem to have @smart-live-rebuild. I do have @live-rebuild in portage-2.2

khayyam · Post by **khayyam** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:15 am

.... or similarly with awk ...

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emerge -pv $(awk '{print "=" $1}' <(qlist -ICv 9999))

best ... khay

proteusx · Post by **proteusx** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:55 am

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emerge -vp @live-rebuild

misses some items.
e.g.
dev-perl/File-Slurp-9999.190.0
app-text/scrollkeeper-9999-r1

So I created my own set with the 9999 packages:

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qlist -ICv 9999 | sed 's/^/=/' > /etc/portage/sets/p-9999

Then to update:

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emerge -pv @p-9999