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* Harry Putnam (reader@×××××××.com) [12.06.09 18:15]: |
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> I can sync fine... just didn't want to do an update world just now as |
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> my sources are quite new, but still didn't want to get sources too far |
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> ahead of installed packages. |
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I think, you did not understand, what a sync does. It updates mostly |
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ebuilds and not ever any source package. |
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And ebuilds are just recipes to build software from sources, so this has |
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no impact on the software installed, as long as you don't want to |
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rebuild a specific version, which is no longer in the tree. But even for |
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this case there is the attic. |
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Gentoo's normal behaviour is frequent change. May you should consider |
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the buildpkg option or quickpkg to have binary packages for all your |
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installed software at hand, for quick recovery. |
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But syncing the portage tree at least weekly, most likely daily, is that |
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what most Gentoo users do. So there is absolute no problem, especially |
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if you are using the stable tree... |
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Sebastian |
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