> Can anyone point me at documentation describing what the 'regen' > option does on emerge? The man page is the only place I've found, > and it basically tells me to use rsync. > > What I want to do is create a separate portage tree that I can > manually rync into, and copy over .ebuild files as I need them, into the > main /usr/portage tree.
emerge regen causes portage to generate all missing cache entries for any ebuild in the portage tree, as well as regenerate the ones marked as expired due to an eclass change or the ebuild itself changing. It's a forced caching, basically. 'emerge sync' does the same thing but does it with an extreme difference in speed by using the cache that's generated on gentoo's servers. A complete regeneration can take upwards of two hours, depending on the speed of the machine. I'm not entirely certain what you're doing but the only use for this function for non-cvs users is for the generation of a metadata cache. As Gentoo does this itself, it seems unlikely that this really is going to benefit anything you're trying to accomplish, unless you have a _very_ large set of ebuilds that you're incorporating into a private rsync tree. --NJ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
