Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:45:46 +0800 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: > >> I do understand that getting something stable and working then > >> wanting to keep it that way.  I'm just wondering what h

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-04-02 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: >> I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting >> to keep it that way.  I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the >> long run. > > I can only imagine what will

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote: > > Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for > > a while, yet allow package-rN updates... > > This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage afte

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-18 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:40:54 -0700 Michael Higgins wrote: > Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a > while, yet allow package-rN updates... > > I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a > serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:46:57 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote: > > qatom $(qlist -ICv) | awk '{print ">"$1"/"$2"-"$3"~"}' > What i was wondering: Is there a reason why you split the qlist output > into atoms, just to put it together the same way qlist has spitted it > out? > > qlist -ICv | awk '

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-17 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) [12.03.09 10:49]: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > The atom syntax you want is ~ which means any -rN version > > (including -r0) of the base version. > > I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know it >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:55:32 -0400, Sean wrote: > I don't think there's a real good way to accomplish this, but the > approach I would take is to setup a local portage tree that the system > syncs from. You could then cherry pick the ebuild updates that go into > that local, and now customized, po

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-13 Thread Beau Henderson
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Sean wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 13:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: >> Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, >> yet allow package-rN updates... > > I don't think there's a real good way to accomplish this, but the > appr

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-13 Thread Sean
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 13:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: > Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, > yet allow package-rN updates... I don't think there's a real good way to accomplish this, but the approach I would take is to setup a local portage tree that

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-13 Thread Dale
Michael Higgins wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:51:05 + > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be up

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:51:05 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is > > > going to bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be > > > updated fairly regular. I been around Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 March 2009 21:43:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > It didn't occur to me that when putting > the tilde at the wrong end, you were talking out of the wrong end :) I seem to be doing that a lot lately. You should have seen Tuesdays' blunder: mysql> UPDATE passwds set passwd=, status="NEW", u

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:52:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know > > it could be used at the end too. > You must be English. Only an Englishman could point out a blunder like > that in such a subtle way as to make the other guy c

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 March 2009 11:48:48 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The atom syntax you want is ~ which means any -rN version > > (including -r0) of the base version. > > I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know it > co

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to > > bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly > > regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would > > want to do this. I'm n

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The atom syntax you want is ~ which means any -rN version > (including -r0) of the base version. I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know it could be used at the end too. > You could grab a complete list of y

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: > > >> Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to >> bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly >> regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want >> to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: > Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to > bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly > regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want > to do this. I'm not sure how much e

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote: > >> Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, >> yet allow package-rN updates... >> > > This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage after a quick scan of > the man

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote: > Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, > yet allow package-rN updates... This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage after a quick scan of the man pages. But I can think of a method to do i

[gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Higgins
Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, yet allow package-rN updates... I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging the CPU on a resume, or bay swap, and gnome panel freezing on > 7