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I would hope that people rsync before installing new packages -- saves having |
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to install them twice. After the rsync, if you run emerge -up world, you'll |
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get a specific message in the package list about a new portage being |
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available. Isn't this and the general knowledge that Gentoo hinges on portage |
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enough for people to update portage before emerging other packages? |
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Alain |
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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:49:38AM -0800, Sean P. Kane wrote: |
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> An example of a package is x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 which requries a |
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> version of Portage that doesn't experience BUG 13013 |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13013. If people know this it |
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> would be very helpful to either makrk it as a dependency, which may |
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> actually be too difficult for package mantainers to keep updated, or |
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> allow Portage to have an auto-update feature that will always update |
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> Portage before doing other emerges. |
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> Sean |
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> |
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> |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Dylan Carlson [mailto:absinthe@×××××.com] |
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> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 19:30 |
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> To: Sean P. Kane; gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage as a dependency |
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> |
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> On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:17 pm, Sean P. Kane wrote: |
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> > I reported a bug earlier today that turned out to be caused by a |
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> > slightly older version of Portage. Shouldn't we consider having |
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> > portage or the ebuilds handle this type of situation better, by either |
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> > having the ebuilds have a particular version of portage as a |
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> > dependency or making portage always check for a newer stable version |
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> > of portage whenever it does an emerge and then upgrading to that |
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> > first. |
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> RDEPEND=">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.47", as an example, is one way an ebuild |
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> can do it. |
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> Furthermore, Portage should be backward compatible with ebuilds written |
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> for |
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> earlier versions. DEPEND/RDEPEND should be all that is necessary in |
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> situations where an ebuild depends on a newer, masked version of Portage |
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> -- if that is in fact necessary. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Dylan Carlson |
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