On Saturday, 1 September 2018 11:35:49 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> On 01/09/18 10:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> I wish there was a portage option that said "don't give up, just emerge
> >>
> >> > what you can".
> >
> > There is: --keep-going
>
> There isn't ...
>
> "keep going" says "don't stop
On 01/09/18 10:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> I wish there was a portage option that said "don't give up, just emerge
>> > what you can".
> There is: --keep-going
>
There isn't ...
"keep going" says "don't stop once you've started". What I want is
"start anyway".
If emerge hits a load of
On Saturday, 1 September 2018 09:35:46 BST Wol's lists wrote:
> On 23/08/18 11:25, Adam Carter wrote:
> > The machine is actually a server, which just sat in a corner doing
> > its
> > job perfectly. That's one of the reasons it wasn't updated: if it
> > ain't
> > broken, don't
On 23/08/18 11:25, Adam Carter wrote:
The machine is actually a server, which just sat in a corner doing its
job perfectly. That's one of the reasons it wasn't updated: if it ain't
broken, don't fix it.
Any system that is not getting software updates is broken to some
degree, just
On 08/23/2018 10:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
>> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite
>> a long while, actually.
>
>> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the
>> system from scratch is absolutely not
On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite
> a long while, actually.
> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the
> system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and
> running) system must
>
> The machine is actually a server, which just sat in a corner doing its
> job perfectly. That's one of the reasons it wasn't updated: if it ain't
> broken, don't fix it.
>
Any system that is not getting software updates is broken to some degree,
just in a subtle way.
Trimming your
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:17:58 +0100
(Nuno Silva) wrote:
> [...]
> The biggest hurdle in your case is that you need to update tar. Do
> what was already mentioned elsewhere in the thread, fetch the older
> EAPI 5 ebuild, put it in the local overlay and let portage grab that.
Thanks, I will try to
On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite
> a long while, actually.
>
> Now I needed to install a package, and I did so. It went up, no
> problem. Except that it relies on a newer version of openrc than
> what's on the system. From
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