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On Wednesday 23 May 2007 02:13:18 burlingk@×××××××××.mil wrote: |
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> If nothing else the handbook says that Gentoo etiquite says not |
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> to rsync your portage tree more than once a day. For the average |
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> distro, once a week or even once a month is more than sufficient |
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> to keep up with the packages in the main branch. |
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If you wait more than 30 days between syncs you risk missing messages in |
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package.mask. Packages must be in package.mask for 30 days before being |
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removed from the tree... |
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> I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three |
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> install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before |
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> moving on from there. |
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Err.. what was the purpose of that `emerge -e world` ? (-u and -D does |
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absolutely nothing when used with -e). |
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Bo Andresen |
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