Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007, anhnmncb wrote:
> Yes, maybe http://packages.gentoo.org/archs/x86/stable/ is what I
> want. Anyway, I still think the way gentoo uses for its package's
> database update is different with other distro, and seems a bit
> slower than others, err, I only used archlinux before.

That's one way of doing it, but I believe it will be slower in the long 
run. You have to load the page, read it, and decide is anything of 
interest is new. If so, you then have to emerge --sync anyway, so why 
not just do it reasonably often anyway? And if you use eix and run 
eix-sync instead of emerge --sync, then you also get a nice display of 
all changes to the tree as soon as the the sync is done.

It is true that portage is a bit slow. If you are brave you can try 
paludis (it's in the portage tree) as a replacement for portage - it's 
claimed to be much faster. But, once again, it's relative: a large 
update will still take many times as long to compile and install as 
what it took portage to calculate what needs updating.

Or are you actually saying that the unpack/build/install cycle takes 
much longer than installing an rpm or a deb? That can't be helped, 
that's how compilation works.

> And..., what I have said above will cause a war too?...

Maybe, maybe not :-)

alan

p.s. please don't top post


>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:08:02AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 April 2007, anhnmncb wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >   I just want to know another method to gain the latest x86
> > > stable branch's update info, nothing more else, what I have heard
> > > of I mensioned in the first thread really wasn't the point I
> > > wanted to make, so... can all of you ignore of it...
> > >
> > > Any way, thank you all;p
> >
> > Now that we've all had an interesting discussion on the side, maybe
> > we *should* get back to your original question :-)
> >
> > Did you get an answer/solution for it yet?
> >
> > --
> > Optimists say the glass is half full,
> > Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
> > Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?
> >
> > Alan McKinnon
> > alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> > +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
> > --
> > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list



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Optimists say the glass is half full,
Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?

Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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