Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-02 Thread BRM
From: Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:43:43 BRM wrote: And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine dandy if that is your process - but it's not mine. I may update my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-02 Thread Nils Holland
On 15:41 Tue 01 Feb , Joshua Murphy wrote: The trick I've been using for... a couple years now, across various machines (no cron involved), is syncing one box that shares portage *and* my distfiles on nfs, portage R/O, distfiles R/W, then when it's done syncing and starts its own

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Nils Holland wrote: On 21:35 Mon 31 Jan , Francesco Talamona wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: If the machine is not fast enough - mine is a PII 233 w/160 MB RAM, takes a while do to updates - then you really have to separate out what you are hosting from what you are using. Otherwise you end up in the situation that you have started

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: If the machine is not fast enough - mine is a PII 233 w/160 MB RAM, takes a while do to updates - then you really have to separate out what you are hosting from what you are using. Otherwise you end up in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: If the machine is not fast enough - mine is a PII 233 w/160 MB RAM, takes a while do to updates - then you really have to separate out what you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 12:20:56 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems... Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: If the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine dandy if that is your process - but it's not mine. I may update my laptop twice as often as the other two, especially if I want to play with some software

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Nils Holland
On 18:13 Mon 31 Jan , Dale wrote: Nils Holland wrote: In fact, what I always do is sync one of my machines with an official Gentoo mirror via emerge --sync, and then I just use rsync to distribute the updated tree to all my other local machines as in: rsync --delete -trmv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 31 January 2011 22:26:20 BRM wrote: emerge --sync works fine for your _normal_ portage tree. But if you are running a mirror on a gentoo system that also needs its own copy of portage, then you really need to have two portage trees on the system. One portage tree is hosted by rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:43:43 BRM wrote: And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine dandy if that is your process - but it's not mine. I may update my laptop twice as often as the other two,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct Why not something proven and reliable like emerge --sync?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
On 21:35 Mon 31 Jan , Francesco Talamona wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct Why not something proven and reliable like emerge --sync? In fact, what I always do is sync one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread Dale
Nils Holland wrote: On 21:35 Mon 31 Jan , Francesco Talamona wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct Why not something proven and reliable like emerge --sync?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge problems

2009-01-05 Thread James Stull
Will do, thanks for your assistance! On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: /etc/portage/packages.use: dev-java/sun-jdk -doc Typo. It's /etc/portage/package.use. You need to emerge -N world after that.