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nightmorph 10/02/13 20:54:08 |
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Modified: hb-working-portage.xml |
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Log: |
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Some updates for the Portage handbook: one from IRC (thanks integer) on the kde-meta package, and the rest from me for outdated packages and new output. |
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Revision Changes Path |
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1.73 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-portage.xml |
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file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-portage.xml?rev=1.73&view=markup |
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plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-portage.xml?rev=1.73&content-type=text/plain |
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-portage.xml?r1=1.72&r2=1.73 |
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Index: hb-working-portage.xml |
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-portage.xml,v |
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retrieving revision 1.72 |
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retrieving revision 1.73 |
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diff -u -r1.72 -r1.73 |
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--- hb-working-portage.xml 24 Dec 2008 07:07:48 -0000 1.72 |
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+++ hb-working-portage.xml 13 Feb 2010 20:54:07 -0000 1.73 |
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<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> |
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<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> |
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-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-portage.xml,v 1.72 2008/12/24 07:07:48 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-portage.xml,v 1.73 2010/02/13 20:54:07 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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<sections> |
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maintain the software on his system. |
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</abstract> |
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-<version>1.65</version> |
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-<date>2008-12-23</date> |
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+<version>1.66</version> |
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+<date>2010-02-13</date> |
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<section> |
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<title>Welcome to Portage</title> |
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<p> |
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Some packages in the Portage tree don't have any real content but are used to |
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-install a collection of packages. For instance, the <c>kde</c> package will |
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+install a collection of packages. For instance, the <c>kde-meta</c> package will |
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install a complete KDE environment on your system by pulling in various |
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KDE-related packages as dependencies. |
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</p> |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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+While recent versions of Portage are smart enough to work around minor blockages |
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+without user intervention, occasionally you will need to fix it yourself, as |
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+explained below. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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To fix a blockage, you can choose to not install the package or unmerge the |
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conflicting package first. In the given example, you can opt not to install |
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<c>postfix</c> or to remove <c>ssmtp</c> first. |
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<p> |
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You may also see blocking packages with specific atoms, such as |
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-<b><</b>media-video/mplayer-bin-1.0_rc1-r2. In this case, updating to a more |
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+<b><</b>media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1-r2. In this case, updating to a more |
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recent version of the blocking package would remove the block. |
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</p> |
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<body> |
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<pre caption="Portage warning about ambiguous ebuild names"> |
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-!!! The short ebuild name "aterm" is ambiguous. Please specify |
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-!!! one of the following fully-qualified ebuild names instead: |
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+[ Results for search key : listen ] |
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+[ Applications found : 2 ] |
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+ |
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+* dev-tinyos/listen [ Masked ] |
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+ Latest version available: 1.1.15 |
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+ Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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+ Size of files: 10,032 kB |
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+ Homepage: http://www.tinyos.net/ |
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+ Description: Raw listen for TinyOS |
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+ License: BSD |
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+ |
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+* media-sound/listen [ Masked ] |
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+ Latest version available: 0.6.3 |
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+ Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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+ Size of files: 859 kB |
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+ Homepage: http://www.listen-project.org |
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+ Description: A Music player and management for GNOME |
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+ License: GPL-2 |
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- dev-libs/aterm |
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- x11-terms/aterm |
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+!!! The short ebuild name "listen" is ambiguous. Please specify |
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+!!! one of the above fully-qualified ebuild names instead. |
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</pre> |
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<p> |
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