Afternoon all, On one box here, I use the same packages and distfiles directories on both the main system and a second, small rescue system (the latter is an alternative boot). The rescue system has the same profile and most of the same USE flags as its bigger brother, so the packages should be usable directly. The exceptions relate only to apps that are installed in the main system but not the rescue.
The two systems have their packages defined in sets: @core, @base and, in the main system, @apps. The world files are empty. I keep the rescue system up to date by mounting it in a chroot on the main system. Now, when I chroot into the rescue system and 'emerge -uaDvNk @core @base', portage reports that it can't use the postfix package because of different USE flags, but it does the update I've asked for. Postfix is in @apps in the main system, but it's not installed in the rescue system. Moreover, if I specify -K instead of -k to emerge, it proposes to install every package that's present in $PKGDIR. What can I do about this? Is it expected behaviour? Or, is there a way to specify 'all installed category/packages that have usable binary packages'? At present, 'installed' is being ignored. -- Regards, Peter.
