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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 08 December 2009 00:46:18 Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> 091207 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:49:44 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>>>> I know that from my home-made list of pkgs which I have installed, |
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>>>> where they are marked with 'W' & system pkgs with 'S'. |
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>>>> Yes, I do have to keep it upto-date as I do emerges. |
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>>>> One of the major deficiencies of Gentoo is |
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>>>> that it doesn't provide such a file automatically. |
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>>> emerge -p @system |
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>>> emerge -p @world |
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>> root:501 ~> emerge -p @system |
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>> !!! '@system' is not a valid package atom. |
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>> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. |
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>> root:502 ~> emerge -p @world |
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>> !!! '@world' is not a valid package atom. |
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>> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. |
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>> 'man 5 ebuild' has nothing relevant to '@' 'system' 'world' '-p'. |
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>> I'm using the latest stable Portage-2.1.6.3 . |
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> Your version of portage does not support sets. |
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>> Any further advice ? |
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>> Let me emphasise yet again: the way I do things has been successful |
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>> on 2 machines for more than 6 years; it's others who have problems |
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>> doing it their way & regularly seek advice on this list as a result. |
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> Let me correct you there: |
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> The experienced old hands here almost uniformly do not have such problems. |
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> It's the n00bs who don't grok portage just yet, or don't know to look inside |
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> ebuilds when the ebuild goes wonky, who have such problems. The classic cause |
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> of problems is mixing stable and testing |
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OP, |
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And I would like to mention that portage has changed a LOT in the last |
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six years. The way you do things apparently has not. That alone could |
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lead to problems. As software changes, we have to change the way we do |
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things in order to react to those changes. If we don't, then we could |
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run into problems. I first installed Gentoo from a 1.4 CD so I been |
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around about the same amount of time you have. Portage has changed a |
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whole lot since then. The way I do things has changed as well. I don't |
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think revdep-rebuild even existed back then. I use it regularly now. |
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Portage has a lot of options now that it didn't have back then. They |
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are there because they are needed and useful in certain situations. |
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Using Gentoo basically requires you to stay up to date. Getting behind |
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can come back to bite you. That can be said about a lot of situations |
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with Gentoo, both in updating the OS and updating ourselves as well. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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