Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> are there any "eix" gurus out there?
>
> I want to check whether or not some installed package was installed from
> a binary or an ebuild. However, according to "man eix" predicate "{is-
> binary}" "returns 1 or empty depending on whether there is a correspond-
> ing *.tbz2, *gpkg.tar, or *.xpak file for the version". This is not ex-
> actly what I need, because an existing binary package for the same ver-
> sion does not guarantee that the package was really installed from that
> binary: if the USE flags don't match, the package will nevertheless be
> installed from the ebuild.
>
> So, is there a way to persuade "eix" to reveal this information? Or is
> there any other command I could use?
>
> Any hints welcome :-)
>
> Sincerely,
> Rainer
>
>
If no one has a better idea. This might help in a lot of cases. Just
do a genlop -t <package name> and look at how long it took to complete.
You take that qtwebengine package that takes so long to compile as a
example. If it spits out a time of a few minutes, that was a binary. If
it is a long time, close to a hour or more, then it compiled it. That
should work for the larger packages anyway. Unless you have a really
fast CPU.
Also, don't forget equery u <package name> will display USE flags for
what is installed and what will be changed, if anything is changed.
There may be a way to change what it looks at too. I never went deeper
than what is installed and what it will install next.
I hope someone has a much better answer tho. I'm not 100% sure of what
you looking for. I think I got a idea but I could be missing
something. I'm working on cutting up that tree again and my back just
threw up a white flag. My brain is somewhat divided at the moment. One
part is trying to type, the other is letting me know my back is plenty
angry. :/ I'm beating that tree tho. Only got a log about 15 feet
long left. Two more cuts.
Dale
:-) :-)
