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On Aug 10, 2005, at 12:42 AM, Grobian wrote: |
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> Two small things that I don't know for sure: |
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> | Warning: Using any shell besides bash is currenly unsupported and |
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> most |
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> | likely won't work. You should change your default shell in |
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> Terminal by |
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> | clicking on Terminal->Preferences (in the menu bar), chosing the |
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> | "Execute this command" option, and entering /bin/bash. |
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> How likely is this? Of course I ignored this warning when |
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> installing my Gentoo, because I feel hopelessly lost in bash. On |
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> the one hand, is it known what causes trouble? and on the other |
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> hand, considering the default shell is bash from 10.3 (at least |
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> 10.4) also for the root account, and everything is done using "sudo |
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> su", how likely is it the user will use a different shell for the |
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> root user than the system provided one? On top of this, whenever |
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> the whole emerge system is getting into action a bash shell is |
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> forked from python I think, so what relevance is the parent shell |
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> to that? |
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Yeah, I've always used zsh myself, with no problems to speak of. |
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>> Please note that there's probably a good deal more documentation |
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>> work to be done, but I feel that it's probably smarter to get the |
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>> updates published in stages rather than all at once. At the very |
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>> least, it allows for better QA analysis of each revision. |
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>> Kito: I apologize in advance if I butchered the description of the |
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>> progressive profile. Please feel free to slap me with a very |
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>> large, very freshly-dead herring, and submit corrections as |
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>> necessary. |
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Attached is a rough description of the progressive profile. |
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I would suggest getting rid of the section telling users to keyword |
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ebuilds directly, and instead point them to the /etc/portage/* files. |
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As more of the base-system packages get the ~ppc-macos keyword for |
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the progressive profile, I suspect users will be confused when they |
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see an ebuild with the ~ppc-macos keyword but still being unable to |
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emerge as a result of it being masked for file collisions on the |
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standard profiles. |
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We should probably also mention the fact that the installer has the |
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bug of portage not knowing its installed, so probably just tell them |
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to `FEATURES="-collision-protect" sudo emerge --nodeps portage` to |
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avoid the endless dup bugs being filed and the same question being |
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asked in #-osx. |
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Thanks for doing this much-needed update! |