Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:56:17
Message-Id: 200904242356.13085.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage by Chuck Robey
1 On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote:
4 > >> I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I
5 > >> began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message
6 > >> tellimg me I had to read an eselect message from "gentoo", but no matter
7 > >> how I play with it, I can't get eselect to accept anything at all
8 > >> regarding "gentoo". There isn't any such module, nor any news item at
9 > >> all available. If anyone recognizes the message from emerge about
10 > >> eselect, could you give me a command line that will report what it is
11 > >> that emerge is asking me to read?
12 > >
13 > > elesect news
14 >
15 > well, I had already tried "eselect news", it only reports back that there
16 > are 0 items to read. Seeing as emerge is telling me I need to read the
17 > eselect news, it seems likely that I'm still doing something wrong, or
18 > maybe that my configuration is wrong.
19 >
20 > Maybe things will improve after I finish updating all the /etc/ files.
21
22 afair it only tells about the new feature.
23
24 If there is a news message it looks like this:
25
26 eselect news list
27 Unread news items:
28 (none found)
29 Read news items:
30 2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16
31 Generation 1 Java Setup Deprecated