I tried it and it didnt work - though the package I tried it on was a masked one.
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 21:26 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > One piece of man page may indicate otherwise: > > list <local-opts> pkgspec > This command lists packages matching pkgspec in a user-specified > combination of installed packages, packages which are not > installed, the portage tree, and the portage overlay tree. > > <local-opts> must include not include only -I; if -I is used, -p > and/or -o must be also. By default, only installed packages are > searched. -o searches only the overlay tree [and possibly > installed packages], not the main portage tree. > > -i, --installed search installed packages (default) > -I, --exclude-installed do not search installed packages > -p, --portage-tree also search in portage tree (/usr/portage) > -o, --overlay-tree also search in overlay tree > (/usr/local/portage) > > However, I couldn't piece together what `pkgspec' might mean. > > Can anyone here show some example commands using above with pkgspec > explained a bit more? > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
