[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-19 Thread Charles Marcus
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/18/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could satisfy my ignorance... Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost always specified? -- is the GNU getopt syntax for long

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-19 Thread Charles Marcus
-opt is processed as 6 options ('o', 'p', and 't'). s/6/3/g eh? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/19/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --sync is correct. -sync is wrong and generates an error. Ahem... not for me it didn't... thats why I asked - wondered if I may What versions of portage python (emerge -pv portage python)? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/19/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -opt is processed as 6 options ('o', 'p', and 't'). s/6/3/g eh? It is 'sed' syntax. In english: replace all ocurrences of the pattern '6' with the string '3'. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-19 Thread Michael A. Smith
Charles Marcus wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 1/18/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could satisfy my ignorance... Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost always specified? -- is the GNU

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:39:48 -0500, Michael A. Smith wrote: Now, why did it not generate an error for me, I wonder? Maybe you're thinking of emerge sync: $ emerge -sync !!! Error: -y is an invalid short action or option. Same here. emerge -sync is the same as emerge -s -y -n -c. --