On 11/19/08, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I found that paludis will refuse to even fetch if there's blocks - I >> almost reported that as a bug as I think the correct behaviour when >> fetching is to always ignore blocks? > > Paludis won't carry out any action until it has a correct resolution > available to it, or until you explicitly tell it to cheat to get a > resolution.
What that meant though is that I had to trawl through the paludis man page to work out which command I needed to specify in order for it to ignore the type of block I was facing. searching for "ignore" as in ignore blocks didn't help. At the time it was fustrating, all I wanted to do is download it. From a user-pain point of view, either printing a hint to the user like "You only seem to want to fetch, try adding --foo-bar" or simply always fetch would seem like better behaviour. Like I say, it's not really a bug per-se, which is why I didn't report is as such. The command I finally found which made it ignore the blocks was this: paludis --install --fetch sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs sys-fs/e2fsprogs --dl-deps-default discard I'm pretty sure there's something better, but that worked and I was happy. Out of a matter of interest, what _should_ I have used? --dl-blocks discard ? Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
