Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:06:41
Message-Id: 201102020104.37992.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems... by BRM
1 On Monday 31 January 2011 22:26:20 BRM wrote:
2
3 > "emerge --sync" works fine for your _normal_ portage tree.
4 > But if you are running a mirror on a gentoo system that also needs
5 > its own copy of portage, then you really need to have two portage
6 > trees on the system. One portage tree is hosted by rsync for all -
7 > it can be synch'd at will with the official portage trees.
8 > The second portage tree is the system's portage tree, and is only
9 > sync'd when you update it - just like any other gentoo system.
10
11 I don't understand any of this. Why should any two systems require
12 different versions of the portage tree?
13
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15 Rgds
16 Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.