Working fast here to get to other things I need to finish...
I read everything here, & I thank you very much for the extra info -- I may be using this in the next few minutes!
Backquotes deprecated, huh...? Ok, we'll see how that "plays in Peoria" for what uses...
thanks, rgh.
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:36:50 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote:
<...derivations...> That is, which
kernel.org kernel-w.x.y.z
did which
gentoo kernel-w.x.y-gentoo-rz
come from, then get patched, and with which patches.
Oh and by the way if you just want the sources that Linus built, then emerge vanilla-sources, there will be no patching from the kernel.org sources.
I still gotta man equery & which.
Next time I boot to linux.
equery is a general tool for mucking about with portage, and finding info about packages.
equery which <packagename>
gives the full name and path of the ebuild that will be used if you emerge <packagename>
eg:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ equery which samba /usr/portage/net-fs/samba/samba-3.0.13.ebuild
if you put the command in back-ticks ` then its like typing the output of the command inside the ` ` on the command line
eg
less `equery which samba` (note the backticks, they are hard to spot)
is equivalent to
less /usr/portage/net-fs/samba/samba-3.0.13.ebuild (except that it always gives the up to date ebuld as reported by equery)
in other words its just a shortcut to read the ebuild file.
Note also that back ticks are deprecated, in favour of this construct:
less $(equery which samba) - which gives the same result, although there is some technical difference that doesn't matter right now. I try and force myself to use the new $() way instead of back-ticks, but its one more character to type and all that shift keying to get the $()
Thank you again!, robert.
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