On Friday 07 January 2005 04:39, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > how does one count the # of packages supported by the current > portage? > > ls -laR | wc -l definately does not work > eupdatedb would work, since it counts down to 0. > > There's got to be another way.
esync, that uses eupdatedb shows: macula root # esync * Importing old portage tree * Doing '/usr/bin/emerge sync' now * Doing 'eupdatedb' now * indexing: 0 ebuilds to go * esearch-index generated in 9 minute(s) and 47 second(s) * indexed 8331 ebuilds * size of esearch-index: 1345 kB ... That's 8331, today morning. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.10, Compiled #2 Mon Dec 27 06:35:03 CET 2004 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
