Introduction to Subversion
Published on 10 Mar 2004Improvements over CVS:
The most common use of the SSH client configuration in ~/.ssh/config
is the definition of aliases for host with special requiements.
A typical emerge rsync
only works if an intermediate firewall allows the appropriate packets to pass through. Though chances are that you are able to work around that.
The implemented use flags of a package can be retrieved by the following. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
Many packages install dynamic libraries which other packages link against. When updating such a package the old instance of a dynamic library is removed causing dynamic links to break. The package gentoolkit
contains a tool to check an repair the dynamic linking of your system: revdep-rebuild
.
List packages and versions matching a string. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
It is sometimes useful to obtain a list of files which were merged for a certain package. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
When managing the packages installed on your system emerge
logs start and stop times of merging and unmerging packages.
Normal users will most certainly experience some problems running emerge
because it does not have the permissions required to cache calculations.