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Am 29.05.2016 um 22:15 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> On 29/05/2016 19:54, Dale wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> On 29/05/2016 11:28, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Håkon Alstadheim wrote: |
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>>>>> Den 29. mai 2016 03:17, skrev Gregory Woodbury: |
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>>>>>> WOW! |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> Alan just wants to start it and walk away, as if Gentoo was a binary |
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>>>>>> distribution |
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>>>>>> that handles it all upstream. He doesn't want to take the time to |
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>>>>>> review what |
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>>>>>> emerge is proposing and see if changes are needed first. |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>> It IS actually possible to do that, at least for non-critical systems. |
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>>>>> Just make sure to mail yourself with the emerge output, so you can fix |
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>>>>> things before the next automatic run. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> The point being that you don't have to sit and watch while emerge works. |
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>>>>> You can have the output of any blocks or failures waiting for you in |
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>>>>> your inbox at your convenience. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> For this to work in a timely fashion you need to stay on stable packages |
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>>>>> as much as possible, and also keep other customizations to a minimum, |
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>>>>> e.g. don't use --autounmask-write. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> Thing is, that's not what Alan seems to want. Alan wants something like |
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>>>> Ubuntu or something where you tell it to upgrade and then walk away |
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>>>> without checking anything. |
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>>> You are both wrong. What Alan Grimes really wants is an excuse (any |
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>>> excuse) to whine, whinge and bitch about $STUFF. |
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>>> Notice how he never replies to any thread he starts? |
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>> Well, he did reply. Either his script is still doing it or he did and |
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>> he hasn't learned anything yet. |
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>> It's funny how he is the only one that has these problems and how he |
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>> keeps using that disaster of a script. I don't think anyone has posted |
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>> a positive thing about that script. I'm no script guru by any means but |
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>> even I can read that thing and see what a disaster it is. |
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>> Best of luck to him. I'm about done trying to help. Key word, trying. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> I agree Dale. |
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> Mr Grimes should probably move over to Linux From Scratch. It has none |
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> of portage's absurdities, makes no effort at all to be helpful to the |
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> user and allows anyone to write any build automation they feel is |
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> appropriate. LFS also requires you to watch all the compiler output all |
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> the time to catch problems; it all seems to match Mr Grimes' |
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> requirements right down to a tee. |
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> I'm going to STFU down, go to bed and finish an astonishingly intriguing |
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> Stephen King book and let the computer get on with doing whatever it |
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> thinks perl-cleaner fixes. |
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personally, I hope he stays around. His mails and the resulting threads |
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amuse me. |
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