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Marius Mauch wrote: |
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>Hi all, |
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>just checking the profiles/updates dir I noticed we have files there for |
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>updates that tookplace nearly two years ago. While that isn't a problem |
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>by itself it's a serious slowdown for the fixpackages script as it will |
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>always apply all update files to all packages. I really doubt that there |
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>are still systems that need these old updates, so if noone objects I'll |
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>remove 3Q-2002, 4Q-2002 and 1Q-2003 later this week. |
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>Marius |
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Hi, |
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While you are at it, would you please consider writing a brief man page |
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for fixpackages. |
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I've no idea why packages need to be fixed or what happens if you don't. |
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Does the make.conf FEATURE option 'fixpackages' fix just the package |
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being emerged or does it sweep all of them? |
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(it is a plural!) |
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I'm sure I'm not alone. |
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Regards |
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dad. |
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