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(I've got a bad habit of saving unfinished emails in the drafts folder and then forgetting |
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about them. I found this one while cleaning it up and thought it might still be informative.) |
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Am Samstag, 15. Juli 2017, 17:47:18 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey: |
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> On Saturday 15 Jul 2017 16:07:26 Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> > Am Samstag, 15. Juli 2017, 15:11:03 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey: |
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> > > On Saturday 15 Jul 2017 12:14:52 Daniel Wagener wrote: |
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> > > > On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 11:00:01 +0100 |
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> > > > Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > [...] |
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> > |
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> > > > Why not just go there and do a "git diff"? |
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> > > > It will show you what changed – maybe that gives an Idea what happened |
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> > > |
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> > > It showed me that I'd changed "masters =" to "masters = gentoo" in |
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> > > layout.conf, which I knew because I'd been told to at some time. |
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> > That's ridiculous. You're configuring the main portage tree to be a |
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> > master of itself. Search for "masters" in portage(5) for an explanation |
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> > of what that option is for (it's mainly interesting for overlays). |
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> Nevertheless, I did only follow an instruction in a Gentoo wiki page. It |
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> said the change was "for future compatibility" or some such. I wouldn't just |
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> have made it up for myself. |
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Hmm, now that you mention it, I vaguely remember something like that. (Also, for a |
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better explanation of masters, see [0].) |
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Searching for it now (longer than I should have), I see it's a warning from portage that you |
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get when you leave it out completely. |
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> --->8 |
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> > What probably happened is that this is the first time something changed in |
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> > layout.conf since you added the "masters" line, thus why git never |
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> > complained. |
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> |
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> --->8 |
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> > Since git is a version control system, it won't blindly overwrite local |
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> > changes, so it's best not to make any :) (so don't add that change back |
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> > in, since it's pointless anyway). Always use your own overlay if you |
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> > want to make changes. |
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> > |
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> > HTH |
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> Yes. Thanks. |
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[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repository_format/metadata/layout.conf#masters |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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