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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 10:42:41
Message-Id: pan.2008.08.17.10.42.18@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.2008.08.17.10.33.09@×××.net,
2 excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:33:10 +0000:
3
4 > Current workaround: Since I don't have anything else I need to list in
5 > world_sets I simply symlinked it to /dev/null, so portage writes @system
6 > into /dev/null and system and world continue to be separate as they're
7 > supposed to be! Now it can write @system into world_sets all day, and
8 > it won't change anything.
9
10 Harumph! That workaround doesn't seem to work either. I guess I have to
11 resort to putting an emerge previous to portage's emerge in the path,
12 that deletes the file portage keeps putting back, before calling the
13 portage emerge.
14
15 --
16 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
17 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
18 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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