On 22/05/2014 16:32, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:42:09 +0200 > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> if you run into issues like this, first try something like >> >> emerge -uDNav world >> >> (--update --deep --newuse --ask --verbose; note the "deep") >> (afaik this is the recommended way to update your system anyway) >> >> If this doesnt help, you can try giving portage more time to >> backtrack, add e.g. the following option (warning this may take a >> while): >> >> --backtrack=1000 > > Thanks, will do that. > > Is there a comprehensive manual about portage and the related tools? > I mean one which explains how the whole thing works, what are atoms and > sets and slots and masks; how dependencies work and how the magic USE > keywords get translated to actual configure parameters, so basically > the whole logic behind it? Then, with all that basic knowledge how > emerge et al work on that info and what they actually do? > > As a developer probably it's all obvious if not trivial to you, but to > the uninitiated it looks a bit of black magic. I went to the Wiki and > went through the handbook, but I couldn't find anything which explained > the actual concepts and implementation of the whole portage system, > just practical snippets of actual tool usage rather than the > foundations. Any pointers to the relevant literature would be most > appreciated.
Portage man pages are fairly complete (maybe not so much for very new features). The trick is to find the man pages :-) equery files portage | grep /man/ These are the man pages I rate most useful (there are plenty more) emerge(1) portage(5) ebuild(1) ebuild(5) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
