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Previous to this I used Debian for years. All was ok until one day I |
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decided there was too much crap on my system from trying different |
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software. So I started to reinstall and the mirrors where down and sad |
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as it seems I cannot go more than a day without my wkstn. I need it for |
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personal and work. So I looked into Gentoo, which appeared |
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to-good-to-be-true. So I jumped in quickly before reading any details. |
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All I wanted was to get it up-and-running. I can learn the rest as I |
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go. I am familiar with apt-get and WRONGLY assumed portage would |
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function along similar lines. It is far more advanced and I WILL study |
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it more. Sorry for the redundant questions. |
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On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 05:24 -0700, Duncan wrote: |
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> Gavin Seddon posted <1134386969.11073.6.camel@linuxstation>, excerpted |
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> below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +0000: |
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> > I had found this |
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> > http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html#Locating_and_installing_specific |
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> > A better question would have been, |
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> > 'how do I find the full package name for 'emerge ='? |
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> do an emerge --pretend, and get the category off of that? |
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> BTW, while the emerge =pkg-name-version-release thing works, it's only a |
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> rough hack, not suitable for anything more than temporary use, because the |
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> moment you try to run an emerge --update --deep world (or without the |
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> deep, if it's something in your world file), it'll want to replace your |
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> very carefully selected version with the latest version matching your |
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> keyword (~amd64 or amd64). |
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> Adding the appropriate packages to either package.mask/package.unmask, as |
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> desired, or if you simply want to toggle between ~arch and stable, adding |
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> the package (without version) and desired keyword to package.keyword, |
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> avoids the problem of having portage continually want to remerge a |
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> different version than what you want. |
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> Again, read the handbook, particularly the Working with Gentoo and Working |
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> with Portage sections (you can skip some of the developer stuff if you |
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> want). Too many folks read /only/ the install portion, and then |
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> wonder why "Working with Gentoo" and "Working with Portage" are so hard |
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> for them! (I actually read those sections at least twice, once when I was |
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> still researching whether I wanted to switch to Gentoo and what it would |
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> entail, so I had a decent grasp of how managing it was going to be |
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> different than managing my then Mandrake system, even if I didn't |
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> understand everything I was reading because I couldn't actually try it, |
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> then again, once I actually had Gentoo up and running, and could actually |
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> try things on a running system to see how they worked.) |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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Dr Gavin Seddon |
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School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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University of Manchester |
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Oxford Road, Manchester |
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