/usr/portage/current-packages content

[Egil]

I have spent the last week searching and reading the Forums for information about the content of the currnet-packages file. Specifically, what I was after is the meaning of the following:

• "#"
  
• "#!"
  
• Other codes that I do not remember off the top of my head. (I am at work and not in front of the Linux box.) (*shrug*)
  

I figure that the first two are comments. Do they mean that a package is installed but something is wrong with it or what?

Where can I find that information. I am a newbie and have not had a chance to dig into the emerge package to see if the answer is in there.

Thank You.

[lx]

I don't know its use but its a more general file maybe obsolete (very old stuff in it). Look at the date its from 2001/09/16 and I re-installed gentoo just a few days ago.
the information (for emerge) is in /var/db/pkg. emerge gentoolkit has some nice tools where you can do some queries. qpkg for example gives the list of installed packages, qpkg -f /usr/.../<file> gives the package which owns the file, well you get my drift.

Cya lX
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[chadh]

That's right. The current-packages file is not really used for anything. I don't really know that it was ever used, but it was probably just the output of a find command. The best way to get a list of all packages is