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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or |
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> > did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking |
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> > everything? |
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> Profiles are stored in $PORTAGE_DIR/profiles, so they do get removed |
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> during a sync if they are no longer on the server, just like old |
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> ebuilds get removed. |
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> A missing profile shouldn't break anything beyond getting a huge big |
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> error message when you try to emerge something. Just replace the |
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> profile link to an existing current one and 'emerge -avuND world' as |
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> normal |
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BTW - I have been on record for a long time as being very against this |
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aspect of the implementation of portage and will remain forever so. |
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(Not that the devs care about my POV. I'm just stating it again for |
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the record.) |
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I do not believe that running a simple emerge --sync just to find out |
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what might have changed should ever FORCE me into profile changes and |
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complete machine upgrades. Gentoo was supposed to be about choice and |
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this operation has removed my ability to choose. In this case all I |
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wondered was what *might* need to be updated. I had no intention of |
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necessarily doing anything major to the machine. However by running a |
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simple emerge --sync command to download some new data portage has now |
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forced me into an update. |
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There is no way that I know of to know before running emerge --sync |
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what has been removed from the servers and hence would be removed from |
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my machine. Why do Gentoo devs think they should remove anything from |
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my machine. It's my machine, not theirs. |
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The only way for me to really protect myself would appear to be that I |
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have to back up everything which I find silly. |
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Far better in my mind, and stated many times before, would be for me |
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to create a personal unsupported overlay area and then let portage |
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move anything that is obsolete to that location. This gets it out of |
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the main tree but doesn't leave users stranded. |
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Again, I've said this over the years and I'm just saying it again for |
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the record. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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