Package summaries, versions etc.

[LIsLinuxIsSogood]

I've been running into this problem of not being able to consistently predict which packages are going to be updated and when.

Does anyone know how to tell portage to display all the packages that versions do not match to the repo's (gentoo or otherwise) most current number...I would be very appreciative thanks

[ct85711]

Packages get updated all the time at various rates. So it is difficult to know when something is going to be updated. The stable profile tends to be slow on updating, so it doesn't change too often compared to unstable branch. A lot of the time, you end up

Beyond that portage will tell you want version it wants to update to when you use the -a (asks before continueing) or -p (only tells you what it is going to do, but doesn't perform it) options. In general you should always pay attention to what portage wants to do, to catch it when it tries doing something you don't want it to do). The -u option tells it to update the system, and the -D tells it to look at the package dependencies too.

So you generally use something like

[LIsLinuxIsSogood]

Very familiar with this technique, but it's exactly what I'm trying to get around. I am under the impression that Portage will just do what you tell it to do. If by updating the @world set it won't continue to look further than those packages and the dependencies of...what I want to know is about all the installed packages on my disk...not just the ones that emerge can find, but still in an output of something nice like the way emerge prints it would be great.


Please help me out...I would like to begin by knowing (1) package versions for all installed packages installed -- this seems very possible with equery and then (2) provide further querying of the packages from there against the portage tree...this is where a scripted solution would be ideal, but I don't really have that much experience with any one tool or language.

I do however like the way that Emerge sorts the output for the package versions of both currently installed and further on versions.

[russK]

It's kindof crude but maybe this is a start of what you're looking for:

[russK]

Also I wouldn't be surprised if eix can already do this.

[LIsLinuxIsSogood]

Code worked great, thanks. How would I do one of these two things:

1) run the code (a bit differently with no "=" (equal) but also suppress the messages see below...

[charles17]