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On Thursday 07 February 2008, Steve Buzonas wrote: |
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> > Digests in the portage tree are an old obsolete feature that has |
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> > just recently finally been removed from the tree. Now gentoo uses a |
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> > much better Manifest scheme. 'ebuild <ebuild-name> digest has done |
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> > nothing for quite some time now (at least a full year maybe?), and |
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> > the manifest option is the one that works. |
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> > There's interesting information about this on the font page of |
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> > gentoo.org right now |
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> > -- |
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> > Alan McKinnon |
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> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
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> I didn't realize that. I just used digest for my local overlay |
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> yesterday. Does it still allow it, or do I have an outdated version |
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> of portage? |
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I've found that for over a year now, digest has actually been creating |
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the Manifest files as well. Things get a bit hazy for me here, but |
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reading between the lines I believe that portage-2.1.* has always |
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supported the new and old formats |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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