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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: emerge-log (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:17:35
Message-Id: 49C60229.2050802@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? by Philip Webb
1 Philip Webb schrieb am 22.03.2009 07:58:
2
3 > I never do that: I always do 'emerge -Dup world',
4 > then decide which packages to update & emerge them individually.
5 > I also have a list of all the pkgs I have installed with dates + deps,
6 > which I keep upto-date by hand as I emerge items.
7 > I've never understood why 'emerge world' is considered standard:
8 > repeatedly, there are appeals for help here resulting from its shortcomings
9 > (was it copied from Free BSD when Gentoo was originally created ? ).
10 >
11 >> But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made sense.
12 >> When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told:
13 >> sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1)
14 >
15 > My hand-made list of pkgs tells me that I removed Mktemp 080419
16 > & that it had been required for Debianutils,
17 > of which my current version is 2.28.5 installed 090314 .
18 > Others had problems with this block, perhaps 1 year ago,
19 > so if you really are that far behind in updating,
20 > you should search the list archive to see what the advice was back then:
21 > IIRC a new version of Debianutils incorporated the Mktemp stuff,
22 > so they became incompatible.
23 >
24
25 You know that such a list already exists. It is /var/log/emerge.log. To
26 get useful information out of it app-portage/genlop comes handy.
27
28 genlop -u mktemp
29 * sys-apps/mktemp
30
31 Sat Mar 3 18:14:30 2007 >>> sys-apps/mktemp-1.5
32 Tue Dec 18 01:37:31 2007 >>> sys-apps/mktemp-1.5
33 Sat Apr 12 23:15:42 2008 <<< sys-apps/mktemp-1.5
34
35 Regards,
36
37 Daniel

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