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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:52:44
Message-Id: pan.2008.08.17.11.52.14@cox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2 by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> posted pan.2008.08.17.10.42.18@×××.net,
2 excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:42:19 +0000:
3
4 > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> posted pan.2008.08.17.10.33.09@×××.net,
5 > excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:33:10 +0000:
6 >
7 >> Current workaround: Since I don't have anything else I need to list in
8 >> world_sets I simply symlinked it to /dev/null, so portage writes
9 >> @system into /dev/null and system and world continue to be separate as
10 >> they're supposed to be! Now it can write @system into world_sets all
11 >> day, and it won't change anything.
12 >
13 > Harumph! That workaround doesn't seem to work either. I guess I have
14 > to resort to putting an emerge previous to portage's emerge in the path,
15 > that deletes the file portage keeps putting back, before calling the
16 > portage emerge.
17
18 Duh! Guess I had to ask in ordered to figure it out myself. =:^S
19
20 Maybe this should be mentioned in the upgrade documentation as it sure
21 confused me. @system isn't part of world, but with the new sets
22 functionality, as of portage-2.2, system is treated as any other set,
23 and /just/ as with any other set, it will be added to world if found on
24 the command line unless --oneshot/-1 is set as well.
25
26 --
27 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
28 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
29 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2 Benedikt Morbach <benedikt.morbach@××××××××××.com>