It occurred to me that I wanted to list all installed packages that come from overlays. (I'm doing some house cleaning, so I'm removing overlays I don't need anymore). There appears to be no way to generate this list via equery (the "gentoolkit" method of doing various package queries).
This one-liner should do the trick.
$ for i in /var/db/pkg/*/*; do if ! grep gentoo $i/repository >/dev/null; then echo -e "`basename $i`\t`cat $i/repository`"; fi; done
The output of which looks (only slightly messy) like:
revoco-0.5 Orpheus Local Overlay
synce-gvfs-0.3.1 SynCE
synce-serial-9999 SynCE
synce-trayicon-0.14 SynCE
nautilussvn-0.12_beta1-r2 Orpheus Local Overlay
evolution-data-server-2.28.2 Orpheus Local Overlay
gnome-hearts-0.3 Orpheus Local Overlay
nautilus-python-0.5.1 rion
nautilussvn-0.12_beta1_p2 Orpheus Local Overlay
mozilla-thunderbird-bin-3.0_beta2 Orpheus Local Overlay
libgii-1.0.2 Orpheus Local Overlay
grub-0.97-r9 rion
usb-rndis-lite-0.11 SynCE
xorg-server-1.7.4 Orpheus Local Overlay
You can see here that I have various packages installed from the SynCE overlay, the rion overlay and my homespun "Orpheus" overlay.
It assumes your overlay was set up correctly with the file profiles/repo_name containing the overlay name, at the time of install (not available in earlier versions of portage).
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if you have eix installed a simple "eix -cI --in-overlay" brings similar results.
Out of curiosity why own version of xorg-server?
`eix -Jc`
Thanks for the eix tips.
scarabeus: long story! I tried disabling nvidia's twinview to use the xorg xinerama (not nvidia's xinerama) but X had instability problems when a secondary screen was placed "Left Of" the main screen. I was trying a patch, but that only made the cursor wrap around back to the same screen. There was a bug somewhere... Bug 291620
In the end I gave up and went back to nvidia!
The provided command fails to list packages installed from overlays with "gentoo" in their names (such as the gentoo-haskell overlay). However, you can use egrep:
for i in /var/db/pkg/*/*; do if ! egrep ^gentoo$ $i/repository >/dev/null; then echo -e "`basename $i`\t`cat $i/repository`"; fi; done
This will list any package installed from a repository other than "gentoo" (i.e., the Portage tree).
You don't need to use egrep. "^gentoo$" works as well as pattern for grep. :)
Thank you for this tip. Saved me a lot of time :)
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