Thank you for the information. I might file a bug requesting that the tools support non-installed. Even if they made epm capable that would help but it may not be possible.
I could use the last method but then I have to do the download and check it out. Thanks. I'll have to think about this. On Monday 08 September 2003 21:42, you wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 10:19, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: > > I know there has been lots of discussion about aspects of this. However, > > it appears that qpkg, etcat, and epm just won't do some searches. For > > example I want to list the files in cdrtools. > > > > qpkg - must be installed to do that - but I don't want to install it > > first! epm - not supported yet. > > etcat files cdrtools - says there are two packages but says "only > > printing found installed programs". > > Currently, there is no information about what files a package installs > under /usr/portage. All the above tools use /var/db/pkg/foo/bar/CONTENTS to > find out what files a package installs. This information is gathered at the > time the package is installed - and removed when it is uninstalled. > > > Will these tools ever support none installed packages?? > > If enough people request it then probably... but it is not the fault of the > packages. As I said above, the problem is that the portage tree does not > contain the information. Actually, I just did a test. > > bash-2.05b$ cat `find /var/db/pkg* | grep CONTENTS` > test.data > bash-2.05b$ ls -s test.data > 18292 test.data > bash-2.05b$ gzip test.data > bash-2.05b$ ls -s test.data.gz > 4652 test.data.gz > > And that's just for what I've got installed! If that were to be done for > the entire portage tree. The data would be in the vicinity of 1gb > uncompressed and 250mb over rsync (using the default gzip compression). > Looking at that, I doubt you will see ever see this functionality added to > portage. > > > So how do I find out what's in the packages that are not installed - > > simply and easily without having to take apart the tarball? > > Emerge is starting to support and the mirrors are starting to host prebuilt > packages. Perhaps you could use those to get a compiled version of the > package and check out the contents of that (usually much smaller than the > corresponding source). Try: > > emerge -gKf foo/bar > > and then look into the downloaded tbz in /usr/portage/packages/foo/bar. > > Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
