Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:50:28
Message-Id: 20120223134859.6a099464@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates by Neil Bothwick
1 On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:24:17 +0000
2 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:16:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 >
6 > > Historically, when an update to portage came available, portage
7 > > would put it at the head of the list, build it first, then re-run
8 > > emerge world command.
9 > >
10 > > I've seen lately that this no longer happens, portage updates are
11 > > any old place in the list just like all other packages.
12 > >
13 > > I'm wondering why this change happened, or if I somehow unknowingly
14 > > set an option to disable the old behaviour )I'd liek it back).
15 >
16 > It's not just you, although it doesn't appear to be that random.
17 > Generally the portage update comes at or near the end of the list
18 > here.
19 >
20 > At least you get the rest of the world update done before a broken new
21 > portage renders it unusable :-/
22
23 :-)
24
25 I prefer to update portage first, just in case it co-coincides with some
26 update to the tree <pedantic old fart mode ON>
27
28 I'm not worried about broken portage commits, I have
29 FEATURES="buildsyspkg" enabled so as long as I have a working tar I'm
30 good to go with any fix.
31
32
33 --
34 Alan McKinnnon
35 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>