On Friday 20 January 2006 04:31, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Thanks a lot for the replies, I managed to get qpkg working. > >> > >> However, it's very interesting that I asked for a way to achieve the > >> functionality of a deprecated tool with the current tools. > >> Everybody explained to me how to obtain the deprecated tool, yet > >> nobody answered to "how to do this with the new tools". > >> So, what is the reason for qpkg is deprecated, after all? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Catalin > > > > I wonder the same thing about etcat. It's gone and I have no clue how > > to find out what versions of ppp are available. The new equery makes no > > sense to me. I have used it a couple times but I can not figure out how > > to get it to tell me what all versions are in portage for ppp. I would > > like to try ether a masked version or a older version, if I knew what > > they were. > > This is an easy one :) > equery l -p -o -i ppp > > > I wonder how long equery will last? I figure about the time I learn to > > use it a bit, it will be gone too. This has been a bad week. > > > > Dale > > > > :-)
I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to do. My solution is just to put a copy of qpkg and ecat in /usr/bin, and make a backup copy somewhere for when it's no longer available (in gentoolkit, or a new gentoo install). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
