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On Wednesday 18 January 2006 04:11, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 10:17, Jean Blignaut wrote: |
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> > Hi |
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> > This morning I've found that I'm unable to use the emerge command. |
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> > Any thing I try gives me the following error: |
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> Short answer: delete /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006 and re-emerge |
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> sync; |
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> Long answer: search the forums. |
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> HTH |
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Here's the long version from the gentoo-dev list: |
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Michael Cummings Wrote: |
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Protocol doesn't demand it - but human decency sure as heck does. I just |
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wanted to apologize to everyone for my erroneous commit to the 1Q-2006 |
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file yesterday. |
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The boring background is that some upstream cpan authors use a numbering |
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scheme that makes sense in a decimal fashion, where .29001 is less |
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than .30 (expand the 0's, yada yada yada, ask your kid sibling about |
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math at school today), but portage expects that numbering scheme to |
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actually be a version identifier (so to speak, its the gist I'm going |
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for here, don't flame me on the technicalities of how portage reads a |
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version number). dev-perl/DateTime came out with a .2901 release, which |
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I put in the tree as such many a moon ago (about 1.4 moons ago to be |
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exact), and recently .30 came out. Because of the math business I just |
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mentioned, .30 would never get picked up by anyone since (dropping the |
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decimal point) 2901 > 30. I 'moved' .2901 to .29.01 to make this work |
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better. All was good. |
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Then I had this brilliant idea - use the quarterly file to help people |
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migrate that number, no bizarre downgrades when the emerge world. 'cept |
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move in the quarterly isn't for moving a version, its for moving between |
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categories, package names, etc., and as such I made a mistake. |
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No need to respond to this message (i'd prefer it if you didn't actually |
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- between the 'stuff happens' and the 'your an idiot, revoke that bad |
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boys right to a keyboard' messages, i think it would all even out). |
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~mcummings |
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Basically, someone had a wrench thrown into the gears in the brain. It |
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happens!!! |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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