Re: [gentoo-user] Two things about portage

2015-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 15 January 2015 17:27:29 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Secondly, today's sync fetched thirty thousand files, nearly all in metadata, yet nothing needed upgrading. Is this caused by careless editing? I've noticed before that sed /g alters the time stamp of all files it looks in,

Re: [gentoo-user] Two things about portage

2015-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 15 January 2015 10:27:48 Peter Humphrey wrote: ... today's sync fetched thirty thousand files, nearly all in metadata, yet nothing needed upgrading. Is this caused by careless editing? I've noticed before that sed /g alters the time stamp of all files it looks in, regardless of

Re: [gentoo-user] Two things about portage

2015-01-15 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Secondly, today's sync fetched thirty thousand files, nearly all in metadata, yet nothing needed upgrading. Is this caused by careless editing? I've noticed before that sed /g alters the time stamp of all files it looks in, regardless of whether it changes anything. Most likely an eclass

[gentoo-user] Two things about portage

2015-01-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Is it only me who sees a difference between the order in which portage offers to install packages and the order in which it does install them? Secondly, today's sync fetched thirty thousand files, nearly all in metadata, yet nothing needed upgrading. Is this caused by careless

Re: [gentoo-user] Two things about portage

2015-01-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:27:48 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: Is it only me who sees a difference between the order in which portage offers to install packages and the order in which it does install them? I see it too, I've always put it down to my use of --jobs. It means portage cannot start