Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:12:22 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I ran into this for the first time last week, and I tinkered for an > > embarassingly long time before it dawned on me that simply emerging > > portage and gentoolkit together was the answer. It does seem like a > > bit of a bug when

[gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-14, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 14 October 2019 15:47:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey wrote: >> > I've run into this many times, whenever portage asks me to update itself >> > after a sync I always run `emerge -a portage gentoolkit` to merge them >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 14 October 2019 15:47:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I've run into this many times, whenever portage asks me to update itself > > after a sync I always run `emerge -a portage gentoolkit` to merge them > > both so this error doesn't happen. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/14/19 7:47 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey wrote: I've run into this many times, whenever portage asks me to update itself after a sync I always run `emerge -a portage gentoolkit` to merge them both so this error doesn't happen. I ran into this for the first time

[gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey wrote: > I've run into this many times, whenever portage asks me to update itself > after a sync I always run `emerge -a portage gentoolkit` to merge them > both so this error doesn't happen. I ran into this for the first time last week, and I tinkered for an

[gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-12, Alan Grimes wrote: > I'm still as much as 3 months away from having spare CPU time, right now > the next update is looking **BAD**: If you aren't going to update for 6 months at a time, then Gentoo is not a wise choice for a distribution. You've been told this many times.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:11:12 +0100, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > On 2019-10-12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> tortoise ~ # emerge --update --verbose portage --backtrack=30 > >> --verbose-conflicts --pretend > > > > What are you emerging here, @system or @world? > > portage Ah, I missed portage

[gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-12 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-10-12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:14:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> right now the next update is looking **BAD**: >> >> >> >> tortoise ~ # emerge --update --verbose portage --backtrack=30 >> --verbose-conflicts --pretend > > What are you emerging here, @system or