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Hasan Khalil wrote: |
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> On Aug 10, 2005, at 24:42, Grobian wrote: |
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>> | Note: With each emerge --sync, the /usr/portage directory is wiped of |
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>> | any user changes. Be sure to keep a log of your development efforts |
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>> | and report your findings to the Gentoo for Mac OS X team. |
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>> Ehm, is this really true? I vaguely remember in my first days doing |
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>> this thinking a sync would wipe out my mess, then coming to the |
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>> conclusion it didn't. I don't know exactly how rsync is being called, |
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>> but if a file is newer on the target host, than on the server, is it |
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>> overwritten? I thought rsync is able to optimise by only beaming over |
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>> the changed files on the server side, preventing copying all of the |
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>> files (550MB currently). Somebody slap me with the man page and the |
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>> massive number of options supplied to rsync when running emerge sync |
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>> if I see ghosts here... |
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> AFAIK, yes. Any time I've made changes to /usr/portage and then did a |
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> sync, regardless of whether or not there was an actual update to that |
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> file in the meanwhile, my changes were overwritten. |
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> Feel free to attack me with a medium-sized herring if I'm completely |
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> wrong in throwing in said <note>. I just thought that note would be a |
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> nice thing to have in there for anyone who was confused at this |
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> functionality. If anyone feels as though it shouldn't be there, please |
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> let me know and I'd be glad to remove it. |
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I'm just unsure about it. It think it would be best to anyhow |
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disencourage people to mess with their /usr/portage/ (shoot no, auto |
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completion here ;)). I learnt it somehow the hard way that it is not |
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'handy' to hack that tree ;) |
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/me mumbles something about lost sources, etc... |
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Fabian Groffen |
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eBuild && Porting |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X |
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