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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> I absolutely HATE this about portage. Update your machine just |
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>> thinking about trying a new piece of software and then find you cannot |
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>> immediately go back. Gentoo was supposed to be about choice. Seems |
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>> it's not about my choice anymore. Bummer. |
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> You can tell before you perform the update that the old version is no |
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> longer in portage, |
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How? I run eix-sync and at that point it's no longer in |
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/usr/portage/distfiles. Am I supposed to study what eix-sync is going |
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to do before it does it for the 800 or so packages that are on my |
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system? Fat chance anyone does that on a regular and thorough basis. |
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Or do you mean let eix-sync happen, then study emerge -pvDuN and |
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somehow determine that it's going to delete one out of 100 packages |
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that it's going to update? |
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I'm lost. |
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> then you can copy the ebuild from /var/db/pkg to your |
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> overlay (and run quickpkg for speed) before updating. Remember that |
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> nothing is ever truly removed from portage, it is still in the CVS attic, |
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> What would be handy would be a script that you run after you sync. If a |
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> package you have installed is no longer in the tree, it copies the ebuild |
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> to an overlay. |
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Ebuild and the source code package also? |
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(Sarcastically) What's an 'personal' overlay? You don't need one to |
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install Gentoo. You don't seem to need one until it's too late and you |
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have to somehow create it and deal with this after it's become a |
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problem. My problem was I'm already toast at the dinner table tonight. |
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I told the family that the machine doesn't work anymore and now it's |
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not clear I'm allowed to sleep here anymore. Hard to build an overlay |
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if I'm locked out. |
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A different short-term solution might be to find another old junker |
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machine that is supported, building it out of junker parts. This would |
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be good if I had any certainty that when the work was completed |
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portage wouldn't immediately create the same havok. |
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Fool me once, shame on you portage. Fool me twice... |
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- Mark |
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