Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:14:55
Message-Id: 20090731091451.1ea39f51@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:59:02 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2
3 > I've done so in the past but I've made bad experience.
4 > Unfortunately portage isn't so clever, yet.
5
6 portage is a lot cleverer than it used to be, especially with regard to
7 blocks.
8
9 > Many times (on the 'clones', as well) I had to block packages before
10 > emerge and then unblock again. I even had to unmerge some packages
11 > temporarily and emerge them later on again.
12
13 It sounds like you were using -K rather than -k or trying to build binary
14 packages with --buildpkgonly, which is doomed to failure when trying to
15 build dependent packages.
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19 Neil Bothwick
20
21 Maybe... How much are you bribing me this time?

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Re: [gentoo-user] maintaining clones Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>