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"Bruce A. Locke" wrote: |
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> Hello... I've been lurking around on the mailing list for probably over a |
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> month now and have been playing around with Gentoo 1.0_rc4_pre2 under |
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> vmware. I would like to convert my Linux desktop machine and test box to |
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> Gentoo and have a couple questions: |
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> First, how does one successfully upgrade a default 1.0_rc4_pre2 install to |
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> the newest version of portage? I tried doing an rsync of the portage tree |
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> then doing a ebuild merge but whenever I try to merge other packages, etc I |
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> get weird python errors. |
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Did you upgrade portage or does this errors occure with the version installed? |
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If you want to upgrade packages you should only use the ones listed in |
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current-packages.new because |
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there is alot of work going on for rc4 final and you can consider that the |
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lates revisions in the tree |
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are in development. |
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> I saw the mention of a last minute python patch on |
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> the mailing list and wonder if it is related. How exactly have all of you |
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> been upgrading to the latest portage versions? :) Also I've seen mention of |
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> work on autodependencies, etc... how far has that work progressed? |
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The dependencies for rc4_pre2 are fairly stable. Currently I reqork |
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dependencies in a way that |
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they work with a minimum build environment. The rc4_pre2 ones depend on the |
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packages in sys.tbz2 wich is |
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a minimum runtime environbment. |
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Additionally I add alot of flags which can profile your system. For example if |
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you define the X flag all packages |
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that have X support are build with X support... |
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> Second, is the ebuild file format now stable enough for people to start |
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> package development? is there a quick howto coming down the pipeline |
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> explaining the system or is the only documention to RTFS? ;) |
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The only docs available are three man pages in sys-apps/portage/files/man. :-/ |
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> Third, I don't see any mention of DHCP in networking scripts. Is there a |
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> clean way to quickly implement DHCP client support in the existing scripts |
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> without rm'ing the template eth0 example? |
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There is no dhcpclient script at the moment. But we will have reqorked sysv |
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scripts in rc4 that support dhcp. |
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> Thanks for your time... |
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You are welcome |
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achim~ |
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
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> Bruce A. Locke |
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> blocke@××××××.org |
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