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On Mon 15 August 2011 19:31:50 Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: |
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> Am Montag 15 August 2011, 19:25:12 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> > On Mon 15 August 2011 11:33:02 Paul Hartman did opine thusly: |
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> > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Alan McKinnon |
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> > <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > That caught me out a few times too. I put these commands |
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> > > > into a bash alias: |
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> > > > |
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> > > > emerge --sync |
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> > > > layman -S |
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> > > > eix-update |
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> > > > |
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> > > > and use that to sync portage. That way I don't leave |
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> > > > steps out.> > |
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> > > Congratulations, you reinvented the "eix-sync" command. :) |
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> > |
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> > You caught me out :-) |
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> > |
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> > There was a reason (a good one) why I did that several years |
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> > ago, but for the life of me I can't think what it was. |
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> if eix-sync fails with one of the overlays, all fails. |
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> if one overlay fails doing it step by step you can do all the other |
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> stuff without worrying about it. |
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Sounds familiar, odds are good that's what drove me to take the long |
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road. |
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I take it eix-sync still has this same behaviour? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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