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On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:36:00PM +1100, Adam Carter wrote |
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> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 3:23 PM Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > I went 41 days without emerging (yeah, I know). Anyhow, emerge first |
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> > wants me to update portage, but I run into problems. Can I safely |
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> > unmerge gentoolkit and re-emerge it afterwards? |
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> Its not part of @system, so should be fine. |
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Thanks. I unmerged gentoolkit (0.4.6), updated portage, and |
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re-emerged gentoolkit (0.4.6). Wierd that it comes back with the same |
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version, but portage can't be updated when it's present. |
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> Whenever i'm not sure I just quickpkg first so get it back with tar |
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> if need be. |
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That prompted me to dig deeper. According to |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/System_set_%28Portage%29 you can gat a |
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listing of the system set with either of... |
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emerge --pretend @system |
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eix -c --system |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |