Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes:
> The entire tree is in /usr/portage. For example, all possible > net-analyzer packages are /usr/portage/net-analyzer. "find > /usr/portage -name '*.ebuild'" will show you all ebuilds in the tree, > masked or not, installed or not. Compare this to what you actually > have installed under /var/db/pkg. This make things more clear. > Also, the portage CVS tree can be viewed at: > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=gentoo-x86 OK > > I only said this because 'emerge -s jffnms' has previously shown > > the package (in red) as masked. Plus this page was created: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html > Ok, but view his blog here: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/blog/ > Notice the statement "...which I hope to add to portage in the near future". Cool. > It is entirely possible (but incorrect) to place ebuilds downloaded > manually into the /usr/portage tree. It is also possible (and > correct) to place those ebuilds into PORTAGE_OVERLAY. Yes, I'm following these instructions: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_ Ebuilds#ebuild:_A_Safer_Approach > You (or someone else with root access to the system) must have done > one or the other on the system that shows it as available. Yes it was a long time ago, and I just do not remember. Nobody else has root on the system..... Thanks for the help, Everyone.... James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
