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Cmere
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 Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 7:03 pm Post subject: Portage Package Information |
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| How about a simple way to check package info? Say file size, depends, installation locations, and of course what the package does? Something like "emerge --info 'package name'"? |
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klieber
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| Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: Portage Package Information |
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| Cmere wrote: | | How about a simple way to check package info? |
Well, there is the '-s' switch, which gives a limited amount of info about the package, and you can use the '-op' option to see a list of dependencies, but you're right; there certainly could be more. Personally, I'm a big fan of how debian does it with apt-cache search and dpkg -p.
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MaRTiaN
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| Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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I also think gentoolkit should be merged into the portage ebuild. The tools are so useful, I can't think of any reason not to install them. It struck me as odd that they were seperate even before I used them.
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sda
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2002 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| MaRTiaN wrote: | | I also think gentoolkit should be merged into the portage ebuild. The tools are so useful, I can't think of any reason not to install them. It struck me as odd that they were seperate even before I used them. |
I installed them how does it work? |
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klieber
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2002 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| sda wrote: | | I installed them how does it work? |
RTFM.
| Code: | | /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.1.10/ |
(may be slightly different if you have an earlier version of gentoolkit, but it will be /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-<something>)
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sda
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2002 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| klieber wrote: | | sda wrote: | | I installed them how does it work? |
RTFM.
| Code: | | /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.1.10/ |
(may be slightly different if you have an earlier version of gentoolkit, but it will be /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-<something>)
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Well thanks for the reply not too helpful though. I can't find any documentation of gentoolkit. There is no manpage for it - what is it supposed to do and how does one utilize it? |
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klieber
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2002 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| sda wrote: | | Well thanks for the reply not too helpful though. I can't find any documentation of gentoolkit. There is no manpage for it - what is it supposed to do and how does one utilize it? |
The documentation for gentoolkit is in your /usr/share/doc folder. Try the following:
| Code: | | ls -al /usr/share/doc |grep gentoolkit |
If it isn't there, then your install of gentoolkit is borked -- you should remerge it.
As for what it does:
| Code: | root@localhost doc # emerge -s gentoolkit
[ Results for search key : gentoolkit ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* app-admin/gentoolkit
Latest version Available: 0.1.10
Latest version Installed: 0.1.10
Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/~karltk/gentoolkit/
Description:
Collection of unofficial administration scripts for Gentoo
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Looks like it's a collection of unofficial administration scripts for Gentoo.
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sda
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2002 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Heh - I couldn't find anything on my searches as I was using google-linux, the regular google pulled down some direct references. Didn't realize that the command was to type 'etc-update'.
Thanks for both responses fellas. Gentoo is a nice distro - even for old farts like I.  |
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