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On Tuesday 08 December 2009 00:46:18 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 091207 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:49:44 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> >> I know that from my home-made list of pkgs which I have installed, |
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> >> where they are marked with 'W' & system pkgs with 'S'. |
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> >> Yes, I do have to keep it upto-date as I do emerges. |
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> >> One of the major deficiencies of Gentoo is |
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> >> that it doesn't provide such a file automatically. |
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> > emerge -p @system |
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> > emerge -p @world |
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> root:501 ~> emerge -p @system |
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> !!! '@system' is not a valid package atom. |
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> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. |
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> root:502 ~> emerge -p @world |
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> !!! '@world' is not a valid package atom. |
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> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. |
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> 'man 5 ebuild' has nothing relevant to '@' 'system' 'world' '-p'. |
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> I'm using the latest stable Portage-2.1.6.3 . |
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Your version of portage does not support sets. |
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> Any further advice ? |
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> Let me emphasise yet again: the way I do things has been successful |
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> on 2 machines for more than 6 years; it's others who have problems |
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> doing it their way & regularly seek advice on this list as a result. |
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Let me correct you there: |
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The experienced old hands here almost uniformly do not have such problems. |
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It's the n00bs who don't grok portage just yet, or don't know to look inside |
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ebuilds when the ebuild goes wonky, who have such problems. The classic cause |
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of problems is mixing stable and testing |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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