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It seems that emerge/ portage up to 1.8.8-r1 (the last for the 1.0-rc6 |
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series) recorded md5sums in uppercase, e.g. |
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(from /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/portage-1.8.8-r1/CONTENTS) |
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obj /usr/lib/portage/bin/dobin F397C62D816C80DEC70B17CB01A87B69 1013001542 |
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whereas new emerge/portage-s record md5s in lower case |
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(from /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/portage-1.8.18/CONTENTS): |
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obj /usr/lib/portage/bin/dobin 81b729ded424ececf0542edff43df1a3 1018330619 |
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Since lately qpkg reports most files of a package as having md5 errors, |
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I assume that qpkg expects the old form (md5s in upper case). |
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I can't resist the opportunity for a brief |
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<rant> |
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(i) Am I dreaming or is the symlink to /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge |
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oscillating between /usr/bin and /usr/sbin depending on the portage |
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"flavor of the day. It's clear that this is not important, but |
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it can lead to annoying '/usr/(s)bin/emerge not found' messages. |
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(ii) it would be fantastic if the man page for portage / emerge |
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could be kept up to date. It simply is easier to read man emerge |
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than scroll back in the output of emerge --help. Similarly, the |
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portage user guide accessible from the homepage is by now quite |
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outdated again (e.g., clean is not documented at all) Yes, one |
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can find (most of) the information, but it's not really in |
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the most visible places. |
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(iii) While I agree that portage is improving dramatically and |
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rapidly, having to (re)learn some commands every day on this core |
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utility doesn't strike me as the best thing for a release ... |
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Please don't get me wrong: I love gentoo, and we have deployed it |
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here on about 20 heavily used workstations since the end of last |
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year. Most screw-ups we encountered were our fault (and mostly |
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resulted from switching from 2.2.x kernels to 2.4.x etc.). I would not have |
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thought of this rant if we were talking about rc6 or some |
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hypothetical rc7. However, since upgrading |
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my experimental home machine to 1.0 I have come close to hosing |
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my system more often than 1.0-rc6 during the last 3 months. |
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(Shouldn't it be the other way around ??) |
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<\rant> |
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Thanks for the good work and I look forward |
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to a stabilized portage ... |
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Stefan |
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-- |
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Stefan Boresch |
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Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Structural Molecular Biology |
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University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17 A-1090 Vienna, Austria |
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Phone: -43-1-427752715 Fax: -43-1-427752790 |
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