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Mick: |
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> On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:00, Sergio Polini wrote: |
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> > May I undo an emerge --sync? |
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> > Thanks |
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> > Sergio |
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> |
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> No, but wait for a while for the mirrors to refresh themselves and |
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> resync later. Hopefully, what ever package/version you couldn't |
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> download would be updated for synch-ing by then. |
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> |
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> Of course, I'm only liberally interpreting your question to deduce |
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> what the problem might be, because you didn't tell us. |
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You are right ;-) |
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My problems are: |
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a) my goal is a reasonably updated working system, not one in the |
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latest fashion; |
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b) I had got to two RUWSs, an old Athlon xp (with riva TNT 2) and an |
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HP dv5000z (Turion, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M); |
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-- updating my Athlon system was a mess *before* the new |
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nvidia-legacy-drivers package, so it was worth updating the portage |
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tree, but after the last "emerge --sync" many packages are blocked |
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becasue they want a non-existent media-video/nvidia-glx (?) required |
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(?) by an already installed and working qt-3.3.6-r1; |
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-- my laptop was perfect before modular X, then I ran into inadeguate |
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support (by ATI and Xorg) of my video card. |
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I'm thinking about a "solution": |
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a) a "stable" root partition, including all directories used by |
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portage (/etc, /usr, /var, and..? eventually all but home); |
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b) a "testing" root partition; |
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c) updating the portage tree in the testing partion, always emerging |
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with the --buildpkg option; |
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d) updating the portage tree in the stable partition, and emerging the |
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tbz2files created on the testing partition. only when the testing |
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partition looks stable. |
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Any comments? |
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Thanks |
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Sergio |
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