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On Tuesday 03 May 2005 23:05, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:49 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:10 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > > I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of profiles. |
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> > afaik the only thing it'd need is a 'make.defaults' and a custom |
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> > 'packages' (where we'd force a newer version of portage of course) |
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> > i dont think we even need a set, we could just do it with one ... after |
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> > all, we can stick bash code into make.defaults and have it do something |
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> > ugly like run `uname` or parse make.defaults to figure out the correct |
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> > ARCH |
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> If you're feeling up to the bash-fu, I was trying to propose something |
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> simple, but this would probably be the best solution. |
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> So does anyone have any objections yet? ;] |
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What about adding a "panic" mode to portage which, when confronted with a |
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missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade portage to the |
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latest version it can find with some default settings that should allways |
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work. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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