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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:36:56
Message-Id: 200804302036.25372.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 by reader@newsguy.com
1 On Wednesday 30 April 2008, reader@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> writes:
3 > > eix-sync
4 > > eix-test-obsolete
5 > > emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
6 > > emerge -p --depclean
7 >
8 > -p --depclean tells me:
9 >
10 > !!! You have no system list.
11 >
12 > What does that mean?
13
14 Trouble, big trouble.
15
16 Does /etc/make.profile point to an actual existing profile? That's the
17 only thing I can think of that takes system away. It's defined in the
18 various files named "packages" in the profile directories.
19
20 > Also:
21 > emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
22 >
23 > neither man emerge nor man portage show any hits on bdeps.
24 >
25 > Where can I find out what it does?
26
27 'man emerge' line 350 9for version 2.1.5_rc6
28
29 > Here it just errors out like this:
30 >
31 > !!! Error: --with-bdeps=y is an invalid option.
32
33 it's "--with-bdeps y" (no minus/dash)
34
35 --
36 Alan McKinnon
37 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
38
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 reader@×××××××.com