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On Sunday 11 June 2006 18:38, you wrote: |
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> The man page says you're the author (of the man page anyway) of |
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> emaint. I don't quite understand this utility. |
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i just usually write all the man pages |
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> I've noticed that emerge now has something called a "set" of which |
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> "world" is such a thing. This is a relatively recent change |
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> (not in documentation for emerge 2.0.51.22-r3). |
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not really, portage has always had "sets" ... the "world" and "system" sets |
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> But even in the latest `man emerge`, this is still mentioned: |
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> /var/lib/portage/world |
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> Contains a list of all user-specified packages. You can safely |
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> edit this file, adding packages that you want to be considered |
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> in world set updates and removing those that you do not want |
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> to be considered. |
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> So my question is, if I can edit it like it says I can, why should it |
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> complain when I do something like this?: |
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dunno, i wasnt part of decision making for said change |
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> cdimage portage # echo 'sys-process/vixie-cron' > |
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> /var/lib/portage/world cdimage portage # emerge world -pv |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> |
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> Calculating world dependencies | |
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> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file |
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> !!! Please run emaint --check world |
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> ... done! |
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> |
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> Total size of downloads: 0 kB |
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> cdimage portage # emaint --check world |
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> Checking world for problems |
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> 'sys-process/vixie-cron' is not installed |
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> Finished |
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> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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> So now what? Is world sort of useless for editing? |
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> Has something changed? Why can't I make edits to my world file? What I |
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> have typically done is to copy world files from other systems during |
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> install so that all the good stuff that I like is present (more or |
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> less with minimal tweaking) on each new system I deploy. This worked |
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> great until today. Any hints would be appreciated. I didn't feel that |
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> this was necessarily a bug since it's just likely that I'm not |
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> understanding some subtle thing that has changed. Thanks. |
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i'll let the guys who made said change comment on it |
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-mike |
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