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From: "Arttu V." <arttuv69@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping interactive emerges
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:59:05
Message-Id: fecdbac60909180259l336c54c2xfba0f89b355a5b73@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping interactive emerges by Neil Bothwick
1 On 9/18/09, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:35:39 +0300, Arttu V. wrote:
3 >
4 >> eny interactivity (e.g., in make.conf):
5 >>
6 >> ACCEPT_PROPERTIES="-interactive"
7 >>
8 >> Then try to emerge something interactive:
9 >
10 > I just tried that, and instead of skipping the upgrades, it wanted to
11 > download several packages to a much older version :(
12
13 O.o
14
15 Care to share some of the packages causing this? Maybe some packages
16 have interactivity marked only in their later versions, and others
17 have it in their earlier ones?
18
19 As the feature is not advertised on the portage man-page it could also
20 be that it is still exceptionally buggy or non-functional somehow (but
21 the bug was closed ...) ... and also, maybe there is another way to do
22 this? This was the first one I found.
23
24 >> Naturally, I'm running 2.2rc-series portage, so 2.1 might not have it.
25 >
26 > I do, this is a ~amd64 system.
27
28 Ok, the box I tried that on was a mostly stable amd64, with only some
29 end-user programs and libs (like mozilla-firefox and xulrunner) on
30 testing. And naturally portage-2.2rc40, as you couldn't get kde4
31 without it the other year.
32
33 --
34 Arttu V.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping interactive emerges Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>