Christoph Gysin wrote:
> Russ Brown wrote:
>
>> Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't
>> mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but
>> nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the
>> command with no package argument.
>
>
> $ equery uses --help
> Display USE flags for a given package
>
> Syntax:
> uses <local-opts> pkgspec
> <local-opts> is either of:
> -a, --all - include non-installed packages
>
>> On a related issue, etcat has the very useful 'versions' command which
>> lists all versions of the package in portage along with their
>> masked/installed status. I can't find an equivalent in equery, but I'm
>> now starting to wonder if it is there but undocumented. Any ideas? If I
>> can find something to do that I can stop using etcat completely. :-)
>
>
> $ equery --help
> ...
> list(l) <local-opts> pkgspec - list all packages matching pkgspec
> ...
>
> $ equery list --help
> List all packages matching a query pattern
> Syntax:
> list <local-opts> pkgspec
> <local-opts> is either of:
> -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)
>
> $ equery list -p -o mplayer
> [ Searching for package 'mplayer' in all categories among: ]
> * installed packages
> * Portage tree (/usr/portage)
> [-P-] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7 (0)
> [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r4 (0)
> [-P-] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5 (0)
> [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r2 (0)
> [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r3 (0)
> [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r1 (0)
> [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r2 (0)
> [-P-] [ ] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r3 (0)
> [-P-] [M~] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r4 (0)
> * overlay tree (/usr/local/portage)
>
> Christoph
Nice one.
$ etcat versions mplayer
[ Results for search key : mplayer ]
[ Candidate applications found : 7 ]
Only printing found installed programs.
* media-video/mplayer :
[ ] 1.0_pre4-r7 (0)
[M~ ] 1.0_pre5-r2 (0)
[M~ ] 1.0_pre5-r3 (0)
[M~ ] 1.0_pre5-r4 (0)
[ I] 1.0_pre5-r5 (0)
[M~ ] 1.0_pre6-r1 (0)
[M~ ] 1.0_pre6-r2 (0)
$ equery list -p -o mplayer
[ Searching for package 'mplayer' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5 (0)
* Portage tree (/usr/portage)
[-P-] [ ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r4 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r2 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r3 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r1 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r2 (0)
[-P-] [ ] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r3 (0)
[-P-] [M~] x11-themes/mplayer-skins-0.2-r4 (0)
More keypresses than the etcat form, and I prefer etcat's output format,
but at least it's possible with equery. Man page still needs fixing
though. ;-)
Thanks for the help everyone!
--
Russ.
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