Re: [gentoo-user] keeping system up to date

2003-03-22 Thread Ajay Sharma
On 15 Mar 2003, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 20:17, Ulf Kister wrote: after playing around with gentoo linux and having come to like it I seriosly consider migrating a pool of servers to gentoo at work. Use with care and initiative. Gentoo although highly versatile

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping system up to date

2003-03-15 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On 15 Mar 2003 21:17:38 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Kister) wrote: 3. Recently the shiny and new gentoo 1.4 rc3 version was released. From FreeBSD I'm used to decently ignore any announcements like this, because frequntly syncing the source tree and rebuilding/installing

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping system up to date

2003-03-15 Thread Dave Klipec
Ulf Kister wrote: Only some three things make me hesitate: 1. I have not yet understood how some - definitely important - config files are kept in sync. Look at /etc/make.profile/packages. qpkg seems not to find a port which claims ownership to this file, nonetheless it *is* important -

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping system up to date

2003-03-15 Thread Ulf Kister
Dave Klipec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulf Kister wrote: [...maintenance of /etc/make.profile/*...] This answers kinda both questions 1 and 3: ls -l /etc/make.profile /etc/make.profile - /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/ Yes. Simple as that. Overlooked it though.