John, Why are you using epm? Paludis can do everything you mentioned and in fewer steps.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:51 AM, John Huttley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My take on this issue is to use 'epm'. Which is incredibly useful. > > I'm often doing something like this > > epm -qaG | grep xxxxx to see what I need to delete. Often old > gentoo-sources. > > then edit the command line epm -e `epm -qaG | grep xxxxx ` to kill it > all > > epm runs portage, so paludis needs to know about portage repositories. > > so then run > > paludis --regenerate-installed-cache to fix it. > > then run revdep-rebuild -p to see if anything needs to be re linked and > call paludis on those packages manually > > Its /still/ much simpler than using paludis to delete things. > > --john > > > > > > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:55:01 -0500 > "Tom Cooksey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > That would imply that Paludis knows a sane way of resolving it. > Unfortunately, because Gentoo blockers don't tell the package manager > anything, it doesn't, so the user has to work it out for each > individual situation. > > > > 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 ? > > > In this one particular case, yes. > > > > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > paludis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user > > > _______________________________________________ > paludis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user > > -- Steven N. Oliver _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
