Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux > > you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? > I mean nothing, the ebuild says so... > m. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
> > app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux > > you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? not the backend, but the frontend, yes. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread b.n.
app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
"Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Where are these trick tools found? > > Answered ;) emerge -s Not quite... sometimes yes, but not always. If it isn't in the package name that won't find it. I made a bad assumption that since I'd never heard of these tools they were not in packa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 09 March 2006 21:39, Harry Putnam wrote: > # equery belongs `which dd` > > [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dd in *... ] > sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/usr/bin/dd -> /bin/dd) > > That gives you the address of the package this tool resides in on the > portage tree (/usr/portage/ is d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 14:39 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> eix >> epm -ql Where are these trick tools found? app-portage/eix:  Small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast results app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux Eix is very nice. I have no experience with ep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> eix * app-portage/eix Latest version available: 0.3.0-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 281 kB Homepage:http://eixwiki.unfoog.de Description: Small utility for searchi

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
>> eix > epm -ql Where are these trick tools found? Maybe I'm way out of date but here is what I'd use: First (equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit) (Go thru the man page of course) It has many of the same functions you may have used with rpm. o See list of all *installed* software.