On 2022-01-12, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:25:29 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > If it was installed through portage, there would have been an ebuild >> > for it, in /var/db/pkg. >> >> Yes, correct past tense. There was at some point in the past when >> ipkg-utils was installed. >> >> > That's what portage was referencing when if made the dependency >> > calculations. >> >> There was no ipkg ebuild. [...] > > The ebuild would still have been on /var/db/pkg as long as it was > installed.
Doh! Of course you're right. I was getting /var/db/repos and /var/db/pkg mixed up. I had been searching /var/db/repos not /var/db/pkg -- Grant
