[gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Dale
Hi I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for sets. I would like to have a couple things if someone has them. 1) a link to a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:10:47 -0600, Dale wrote: could someone send me a copy of a sets file for something like KDE or something. Just something I can use for a template if you would. A sets file is just a list of packages, in the same format as /var/lib/portage/world. A quick and dirty way

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread AllenJB
Hi, Portage documentation: http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html Built-in sets specification file: /usr/share/portage/config/sets.conf For KDE sets, check the sets directory in the kde-testing overlay: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=tree User sets

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread AllenJB
Hi again, One more note. I recommend you use a prefix for your own sets, to avoid conflicts with official or overlay sets. ie. I call my kde-3.5 set: ajb-kde-3.5 While portage almost certainly has a system for handling conflicting sets (at a guess, probably user overlay official tree, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 23 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: Hi I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for sets. I would like to have a couple things

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 February 2009 11:10:47 Dale wrote: Hi I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for sets. I would like to have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: Hi again, One more note. I recommend you use a prefix for your own sets, to avoid conflicts with official or overlay sets. ie. I call my kde-3.5 set: ajb-kde-3.5 While portage almost certainly has a system for handling conflicting sets (at a guess, probably user overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 23 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: Hi I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for sets. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:03:10 -0600, Dale wrote: Lets say I have a set named dk-kde, with the prefix Allen suggested, and I put kde-meta in that file. Would that emerge all the KDE or just that one package? I emerged kde-meta to install KDE so that is all there is in my world file right now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:03:10 -0600, Dale wrote: Lets say I have a set named dk-kde, with the prefix Allen suggested, and I put kde-meta in that file. Would that emerge all the KDE or just that one package? I emerged kde-meta to install KDE so that is all there is