On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:17:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
[2] vi /var/lib/portage/world
Edit at will with sense of abandon
vi /etc/make.conf
Edit where appropriate
vi /etc/portage/*
Fearlessly edit
On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:30:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
What a horrible suggestion, not only does it use vi - three times! -
but it ends with a goto!
Here's a much more horrible thing: In which way does the suggestion,
horrible as it is, depart from reality?
Your reality must be bad
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[2] vi /var/lib/portage/world
What if I emerge -vC all I know I don't want.
All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world.
It seems fine in theory, but every time I've done it in real
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2008 10:30:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
What a horrible suggestion, not only does it use vi - three
times! - but it ends with a goto!
Here's a much more horrible thing: In which way does the
suggestion, horrible as it is,
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
vi was written by Bill Joy
Bill Joy wrote lots of good stuff in BSD
Our favourite OS owes a lot to BSD
using vi pays homage to those magnificent BSD'ers of old
I second all the vi accolades.
I like the fact that Bill Joy was horribly drunk when he
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world.
It seems fine in theory, but every time I've done it in real life I get
into deep dependency trees that take more time to sort out than simply
emerging world first.
The trouble seems to
My cleanup routine pretty much involves running vim on
/var/lib/portage/world and going down the list. If I see something I
definitely don't need, I remove that line. If I see something that I
don't remember what it was, in another terminal (just an ALT-TAB away)
I run esearch package-name. After
Brandon Mintern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Call me old school, but that method never takes me more than a few
minutes to do. I am also someone in the vim camp. It fires up quickly
Unless you are updating a vmappliance built on old (even for 2006)
2006 pkgs to current 2008 pkgs.
I know this is
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brandon Mintern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Call me old school, but that method never takes me more than a few
minutes to do. I am also someone in the vim camp. It fires up quickly
Unless you are updating a vmappliance built on old
On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote:
I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-)
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Just got a new car for my wifeGreat Trade!
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Brandon Mintern wrote:
I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
Hey Neil,
Looks like we caught one - a big fish this time :-) :-)
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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote:
I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-)
Hey, watch it
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote:
I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-)
You were very
On Thu, 1 May 2008 22:41:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-)
You were very clear. Some time ago, I offered you a Hansa Draught for
some help if you ever happened to come to Windhoek. That offer is
void now, and I'll drink the pint myself.
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that
big an update without a fresh install.
There's no such thing as a 2006 install. What does exist, is the
collection of packages
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I cannot seem to get past a kernel panic that appears to be expecting
an intramfs (You may remember this from a previous thread) After
hand rolling 3 different kernels and trying genkernal all its all
ended in the same kernel panic.
Yes,
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems like you got to a working state - unorthodox method, but it does
seem to have worked :-)
snip
But now that blockage is solved... I'm getting a failure in the
dependancy gpm when I try to emerge -vu portage.
I've included that
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to try a saner approach to getting it updated. I thought
the first move would be to set the make.profile to 2007 then
emerge --sync
Before changing the profile are you clean with emerge -pvDuN
--with-bdeps=y world? (Or
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
eix-sync
eix-test-obsolete
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
emerge -p --depclean
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
revdep-rebuild -p
eix-test-obsolete
I'd run the first eix-test-obsolete after emerge --depclean since adding.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
eix-sync
eix-test-obsolete
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
emerge -p --depclean
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
revdep-rebuild -p
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
eix-sync
eix-test-obsolete
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
emerge -p
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
eix-sync
eix-test-obsolete
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
emerge -p --depclean
-p --depclean tells me:
!!! You have no system list.
What does that mean?
Also:
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
neither man emerge nor man portage show any
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
eix-sync
eix-test-obsolete
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
emerge -p --depclean
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
revdep-rebuild -p
eix-test-obsolete
Assuming
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
eix-sync
eix-test-obsolete
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
emerge -p --depclean
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
revdep-rebuild -p
eix-test-obsolete
Assuming everything is totally
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
eix-sync
eix-test-obsolete
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
emerge -p --depclean
-p --depclean tells me:
!!! You have no system list.
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
eix-sync
eix-test-obsolete
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
emerge -p --depclean
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
revdep-rebuild -p
eix-test-obsolete
Assuming everything is totally clean, or at least understood, now I
change the profile and
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
eix-sync
eix-test-obsolete
emerge -pvDuN --with-bdeps=y world
emerge -p --depclean
-p --depclean tells me:
!!! You have no system list.
What does that mean?
Trouble, big trouble.
Does
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP
!!! Error: --with-bdeps=y is an invalid option.
it's --with-bdeps y (no minus/dash)
So right you are Alan. Thanks.
Sorry to reader.
cheers,
Mark
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Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
-p --depclean tells me:
!!! You have no system list.
What does that mean?
Trouble, big trouble.
Does /etc/make.profile point to an actual existing profile? That's the
only thing I can think of that takes system away. It's defined in the
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once I followed the recipe above all that disappeared along with the
list error. I think that older version of portage was really what
was causing most of the trouble.
Makes sense. Portage is rather fond of finding the kind of files and
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[2] vi /var/lib/portage/world
What if I emerge -vC all I know I don't want.
All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world.
I was hoping to accomplish much the same thing by editing world. But
strangely I see only a few candidates to
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[2] vi /var/lib/portage/world
What if I emerge -vC all I know I don't want.
All kde all gnome all xorg for example, before update world.
I was hoping to accomplish much the same thing
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:17:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
[2] vi /var/lib/portage/world
Edit at will with sense of abandon
vi /etc/make.conf
Edit where appropriate
vi /etc/portage/*
Fearlessly edit throwing caution to the winds
loop_entry:
Ian Graeme Hilt wrote:
Download the 2008 minimal install cd and install.
Frankly, updating a 2006 install to 2008 is counter-productive. You'll
have a much easier time doing a fresh 2008 install.
Why? If he kept his box up-to-date, there are just going to be some slight
changes in the
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have found
out easily all the available profiles by doing eselect profile list:
That's a cool eselect module, didn't know about that. I don't change
profiles all that often (duh), and end up having to search for
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that
big an update without a fresh install.
There's no such thing as a 2006 install. What does exist, is the
collection of packages that were on the LiveCDs released in 2006. It's
Well I am not sure, but maybe there is a way of adding more space on
your appliance, if neccessary.
The idea that strikes me, is you could use your current appliance as
the Gentoo-life-system and you install a new machine in that free
area, chroot to it and work further. Really the classical fresh
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