Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/02/2012 11:16 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> >>> >>> Fine for your home PC, doesn't cut it on servers. I have the following in >>> one of my world files: >>> >>>  dev-php/PEAR-Mail >>>  dev-php/PEAR-Mail_Mime >>>  dev-php/PEAR-PEAR >>>  

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:09:06 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Fine for your home PC, doesn't cut it on servers. I have the following > in one of my world files: > >dev-php/PEAR-Mail >dev-php/PEAR-Mail_Mime >dev-php/PEAR-PEAR >dev-php/PEAR-Structures_Graph > > which of those do I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:33:31 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Well, travel time sucks too, but I was referring to time travel via > e.g. a time machine, in case some wise guy tried to answer "well you > shouldn't have done that." =) Ah, you mean backups, not time travel :) -- Neil Bothwick "

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:35:46 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > > 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. > > However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file > > once a quarter or so and remove anything that isn't a real > > application, etc. > > How do

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2012 11:25 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Look at it this way: with emerge you tell portage to install a package and add it to world. Period. The package will be installed, no matter whether it’s at the newest version or not. With -u, however, you tell emerge to only do the installatio

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2012 11:16 AM, Michael Mol wrote: Fine for your home PC, doesn't cut it on servers. I have the following in one of my world files: dev-php/PEAR-Mail dev-php/PEAR-Mail_Mime dev-php/PEAR-PEAR dev-php/PEAR-Structures_Graph which of those do I want? At least one of them was instal

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2012 11:22 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm not clear. You allow your server customers to modify your servers, or what, they asked you to install stuff and now you don't know which of them was needed and why? I'm just not clear. They ask us to install stuff, and now we don't know which ones

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 10:26:02AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/02/2012 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > So when the user tells portage to emerge (not merge) something it goes > > in world as obviously that's what the user wanted. Presumably the user > > knows what they are doing an

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/02/2012 11:01 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> I tell by knowing which files I want in @world. Everything in world >> should be a package __I__ specifically want to use. Everything in >> world (on my machines anyway) is something: >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky > wrote: >> On 01/02/2012 11:01 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> >>> I tell by knowing which files I want in @world. Everything in world >>> should be a package __I__ specifically want to use. E

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/02/2012 11:01 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> I tell by knowing which files I want in @world. Everything in world >> should be a package __I__ specifically want to use. Everything in >> world (on my machines anyway) is something: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2012 11:01 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I tell by knowing which files I want in @world. Everything in world should be a package __I__ specifically want to use. Everything in world (on my machines anyway) is something: 1) I'd call from the command line 2) Need to write a little software myse

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. >> However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file >> once a quarter or so and remove anything that isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. >> However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file >> once a quarter or so and remove anything that isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2012 10:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file once a quarter or so and remove anything that isn't a real application, et

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-01-01 5:13 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> On 01/01/2012 05:06 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky >>> wrote: Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2012 10:31 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Uh-oh... I've *never* used -1 unless I'm trying to fix a broken package by recompiling it... I've always just used emerge -vuDN world... Been doing it this way for 7+ years, and never had a problem, so my question is: What 'harmful' thing has been hap

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file once a quarter or so and remove anything that isn't a real application, etc. How do you tell which is which?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-01 5:13 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/01/2012 05:06 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found its way into one

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2012 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: So when the user tells portage to emerge (not merge) something it goes in world as obviously that's what the user wanted. Presumably the user knows what they are doing and can deal with both pieces. If the user would rather have software hold his hand

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:50:36 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/02/2012 08:36 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:06:32 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >> That's why I fixed the new way to be closer to what I am used to. > >> I added --oneshot to my make.conf. When I really need to a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:50:36 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: * Nobody would use --update to install a new package Actually, that's a good reason to use --update on a single package, as it installs a new package, but does not reinstall an existing package, so you can em

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:50:36 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >* Nobody would use --update to install a new package Actually, that's a good reason to use --update on a single package, as it installs a new package, but does not reinstall an existing package, so you can emerge -u a list of packag

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2012 08:36 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:06:32 -0600, Dale wrote: That's why I fixed the new way to be closer to what I am used to. I added --oneshot to my make.conf. When I really need to add something to world, I just use --select y -nav. To me, that is a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2012 05:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You have a production machine delivering valuable services to multiple users. Therefore you must only update *anything* on it during planned maintenance slots. If paying customers are involved then preferably with a second redundant parallel machine

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:06:32 -0600, Dale wrote: > That's why I fixed the new way to be closer to what I am used to. I > added --oneshot to my make.conf. When I really need to add something > to world, I just use --select y -nav. To me, that is a lot of extra > steps to be "consistent". You ar

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:19:39 -0600 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: The current behaviour is the correct and expected one - you told portage to emerge something and it did. Why else would you emerge something if you didn't intend it to become a permanent feature of the sy

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:19:39 -0600 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The current behaviour is the correct and expected one - you told > > portage to emerge something and it did. Why else would you emerge > > something if you didn't intend it to become a permanent feature of > > the system

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: The current behaviour is the correct and expected one - you told portage to emerge something and it did. Why else would you emerge something if you didn't intend it to become a permanent feature of the system and part of world? This has always been the definition of emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 Jan 2012 10:06:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:24:35 -0500 > > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 01/01/2012 07:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:07:45 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > >> Usually it's because a world update wants to do both trivi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:24:35 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/01/2012 07:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:07:45 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > >> Usually it's because a world update wants to do both trivial > >> version bumps and replace major software at the same

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:12:34 -0600 Dale wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is > > responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found > > its way into one of my world files. > > > > Is there any reason to desire the c

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:24:35 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Why would you need to take it down? All you need to do is restart > > Apache after the update. > > > > I have to test, like, 200 websites to make sure they still work. > Something /always/ breaks. > > Apache was just an example.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/01/2012 07:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:07:45 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Usually it's because a world update wants to do both trivial version bumps and replace major software at the same time. I can't take a server down for an hour in the middle of the day to upd

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:07:45 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Usually it's because a world update wants to do both trivial version > bumps and replace major software at the same time. I can't take a > server down for an hour in the middle of the day to update Apache, but > I can bump timezone-dat

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/01/2012 05:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> I'm not clear. Why does one ever bother with emerge -u package? In 10 >> years of Gentoo I've managed to get by with basically either emerge >> package to add something or emerge -DuN @wor

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/01/2012 05:54 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: Actually, -u doesn't mean update, means filter packages that are not updatable (are already the most recent version). It's a filter option, not an action. Portage doesn't work with actions. I can see that this view is logically cons

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/01/2012 05:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm not clear. Why does one ever bother with emerge -u package? In 10 years of Gentoo I've managed to get by with basically either emerge package to add something or emerge -DuN @world to stay updated. (or @system in the old days but no longer...) Usu

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Dale
Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: Actually, -u doesn't mean update, means filter packages that are not updatable (are already the most recent version). It's a filter option, not an action. Portage doesn't work with actions. Not according to the man page: --update (-u)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Actually, -u doesn't mean update, means filter packages that are not updatable (are already the most recent version). It's a filter option, not an action. Portage doesn't work with actions.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Dale wrote: Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/01/2012 05:06 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is responsible for pretty much every pac

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Dale wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> On 01/01/2012 05:06 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky >>>  wrote: Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is responsible for pretty much

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/01/2012 05:06 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found its way into one of my world files.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/01/2012 05:06 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found its way into one of my world files. Is there any reason to desi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found its way into one of my world files. Is there any reason to desire the current behavior? I'd like to suggest that it be fixed, but want to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is > responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found its way > into one of my world files. > > Is there any reason to desire the current behavior? I'd like to

[gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found its way into one of my world files. Is there any reason to desire the current behavior? I'd like to suggest that it be fixed, but want to be sure I'm not just bei

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > Quick update...I now have two of these things set up in a distcc cluster > with my Phenom 9650. ~530 packages in 228m 34s. There's an even larger > initial explosion of parallel emerge jobs, but it spreads out very > nicely...I may have to incr

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-23 Thread John Campbell
On 12/23/2011 12:33 AM, Jarry wrote: But it was the same in the last week, and yet portage could live with it. Why it suddenly wants to uninstall something that is part of system profile? And at the same time it says it might damage my system. Really nice... I believe the base, default pager i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-23 Thread Jarry
On 23-Dec-11 8:47, Alan McKinnon wrote: # eselect pager show PAGER variable in profile: /usr/bin/less emerge --depclean Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Calculating removal order... !!! 'sys-apps/less' (virtual/pager) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Denis Buzdalov
Because eselect's setting of pager does not correlate with emerge's world file. You should add less to the world file e.g. by running "emerge --noreplace less". 2011/12/23 Jarry : > On 23-Dec-11 2:12, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> 'eselect pager list' and 'eselect editor list' will show what >> alt

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:43:33 +0100 Jarry wrote: > On 23-Dec-11 2:12, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > 'eselect pager list' and 'eselect editor list' will show what > > alternatives are available (with a write-in candidate support). > > # eselect pager show > PAGER variable in profile: >/usr/bin/l

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Jarry
On 23-Dec-11 2:12, Pandu Poluan wrote: 'eselect pager list' and 'eselect editor list' will show what alternatives are available (with a write-in candidate support). # eselect pager show PAGER variable in profile: /usr/bin/less # more /etc/env.d/99pager # Configuration file for eselect # Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 23, 2011 2:42 AM, "Mick" wrote: > > On Thursday 22 Dec 2011 19:07:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100 > > > > Jarry wrote: > > > On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >> Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is > > > >> a part of system? >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 Dec 2011 19:07:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100 > > Jarry wrote: > > On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >> Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is > > >> a part of system? > > > > > > I didn't like it either so I've been adding

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:58:32 +0100 Jarry wrote: > On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > >> Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is > >> a part of system? > > > > I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to > > /var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen this

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Jarry
On 22-Dec-11 19:38, Mark Knecht wrote: Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is a part of system? I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to /var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen this on one machine or another for 6 months to a year I think. Some time ago

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Jarry wrote: > > Why does portage want to unmerge sys-apps/less when it is > a part of system? > > Jarry I didn't like it either so I've been adding it to /var/lib/portage/world just to stop it. I've seen this on one machine or another for 6 months to a year I t

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Jarry
Hi, after updating my system I tried "emerge --depclean as recommended by portage, and I received this warning: -- Calculating dependencies... done! Calculating removal order... !!! 'sys-apps/less' (virtual/pager) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your syst

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2011-11-26 17:03, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> Thanks for "quoting" me, Michael ... but I also googled that command >> somewhere ... not my idea ... ;-) > > Just went to that URL to cut and paste the command, the mentioned one

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-11-26 17:03, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Thanks for "quoting" me, Michael ... but I also googled that command > somewhere ... not my idea ... ;-) Just went to that URL to cut and paste the command, the mentioned one doesn't work! My make.conf shows this comment/command: gcc -march=n

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-12-09 Thread Michael Mol
Quick update...I now have two of these things set up in a distcc cluster with my Phenom 9650. ~530 packages in 228m 34s. There's an even larger initial explosion of parallel emerge jobs, but it spreads out very nicely...I may have to increase the -j parameter in MAKEOPTS. I'm also not certain if di

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:58:23 +, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 04 Dec 2011 20:49:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:18:40 +, Mick wrote: > > > But then if there were say 5 ebuilds running in parallel and all > > > their output printed in the same terminal, it would be almightily >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Dec 2011 20:49:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:18:40 +, Mick wrote: > > But then if there were say 5 ebuilds running in parallel and all their > > output printed in the same terminal, it would be almightily difficult > > to untangle the spaghetti that may show up in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:18:40 +, Mick wrote: > But then if there were say 5 ebuilds running in parallel and all their > output printed in the same terminal, it would be almightily difficult > to untangle the spaghetti that may show up in an error? Which is why setting -j >1 sets wh -- Neil Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Dec 2011 14:05:29 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 08:27:33AM +, Mick wrote: > > > > Remerged python, verified the right python via eselect, remerge > > > > portage, etc etc etc etc I just can't seem to get proper output from > > > > emerge anymore no matter what

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 08:27:33AM +, Mick wrote: > > > Remerged python, verified the right python via eselect, remerge portage, > > > etc etc etc etc I just can't seem to get proper output from emerge > > > anymore no matter what. Other than that everything is working fine, but > > > I do nee

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 16:45:19 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:23:48AM -0500, Indi wrote: > > About a month or so ago I did an update which seems to have caused > > portage to lose the ability to work verbosely. > > Ever since it looks like this: > > > > idd@gh:[~]9:07:23

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:23:48AM -0500, Indi wrote: > About a month or so ago I did an update which seems to have caused > portage to lose the ability to work verbosely. > Ever since it looks like this: > > idd@gh:[~]9:07:23 $ sudo emerge -vauND adobe-flash > > These are the packages that wo

Re: Emerge ignoring make.conf entries [was Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch]

2011-12-03 Thread Indi
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 05:20:01PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 10:37:51 -0500, Indi wrote: > > > > that is not the verbose flag, but silent-build. > > > > Hmm, I always thought the "-v" was the verbose switch, and that it > > should work properly regardless of what's in ma

Re: Emerge ignoring make.conf entries [was Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch]

2011-12-03 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.12.2011 17:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 10:37:51 -0500, Indi wrote: > >>> that is not the verbose flag, but silent-build. >> >> Hmm, I always thought the "-v" was the verbose switch, and that >> it should work properly regardle

Re: Emerge ignoring make.conf entries [was Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch]

2011-12-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 10:37:51 -0500, Indi wrote: > > that is not the verbose flag, but silent-build. > > Hmm, I always thought the "-v" was the verbose switch, and that it > should work properly regardless of what's in make.conf. It *used* to > work properly here, I've been using "emerge -vauND

Emerge ignoring make.conf entries [was Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch]

2011-12-03 Thread Indi
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 03:40:01PM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > that is not the verbose flag, but silent-build. Hmm, I always thought the "-v" was the verbose switch, and that it should work properly regardless of what's in m

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-03 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, that is not the verbose flag, but silent-build. If you want the old behaviour back, you can add EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" to your make.conf So long Hinnerk On 03.12.2011 15:23, Indi wrote: > Howdy y'all, > > About a month or so a

[gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-03 Thread Indi
Howdy y'all, About a month or so ago I did an update which seems to have caused portage to lose the ability to work verbosely. Ever since it looks like this: idd@gh:[~]9:07:23 $ sudo emerge -vauND adobe-flash These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... d

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.11.2011 16:39, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > The trouble with --load-average in emerge is that it is only > checked as each ebuild is about to start, so you get the "load > explosion" mentioned previously when many ebuilds start and once > and then get into their compile phases. I'm using --jobs,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:47:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > With the cooling system I currently have, I don't like to push it > > too much (a new watercooler should arrive tomorrow), but > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l10" appears to be a definite improvement over the > > old -j8 with no -l. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.11.2011 12:08, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:36:08 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Neil, you run a core-i7-2600 as well ... what is your current >> best-practise with that CPU, concerning the values of N and -l >> ... ? > > With the cooling system I currently have

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:36:08 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Neil, you run a core-i7-2600 as well ... what is your current > best-practise with that CPU, concerning the values of N and -l ... ? With the cooling system I currently have, I don't like to push it too much (a new watercooler shou

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 29, 2011 2:53 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > I use Intel boxes, unfortunately. > > Are you using a 64-bit x86-derived system? Same difference in this > context. AMD hit the market with a good 64-bit x86-based ISA first, > and devs

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > I'm currently timing > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l13" > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=13" > > with 493 packages (base plus X plus XFCE and chromium, and, of course, > USE flags), but I'll start another timed run with > > MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l8

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 28.11.2011 20:14, schrieb Michael Mol: >> Upstream devs might take issue with them, but I'm still not sure they >> should affect bug reports of build-time failures. I would *hope* >> upstream gcc is doing tests on its own build tools com

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Nov 29, 2011 2:02 AM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: >> Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: >> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan >> > wrote: >> >> On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.11.2011 20:14, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Florian Philipp > wrote: >> Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: >>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> No, you've got some ugly flags in there. -fexcess-precision and >>> -funsafe-math-optim

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 29, 2011 2:02 AM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: > > Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > >>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Won't file a bug report

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> No, you've got some ugly flags in there. -fexcess-precision and >> -funsafe-math-optimizations, in particular. (I must have been talking

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: emerge f

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: [snip] > FWIW, I strongly suspect that N should be your number of *logical* > cores, not your number of physical cores. I believe most of the > overhead ...and finishing my sentence. I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Nov 28, 2011 11:32 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: [snip] > Unfortunately, striving for 2*N will inadvertently result in short bursts of >> 2*N, and this potentially induce a stall, which will be very costly. 1.8*N > gives a 10% margin for bur

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:54:13 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Pandu Poluan > wrote: > > > > On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feelin

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM, kashani wrote: > On 11/28/2011 9:28 AM, James Wall wrote: >>> >>> I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term >>> 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is >>> really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a mo

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term >> 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is >> really pretty racist, so I wonder if there

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread kashani
On 11/28/2011 9:28 AM, James Wall wrote: I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin I simply cannot find using Google? - Mark Ric

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> > Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: >> > emerge failure will be marked WONTFIX thanks to the 'r

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.11.2011 17:54, schrieb Mark Knecht: > I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term > 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is > really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin > I simply cannot find using Google? Mayb

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term > 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is > really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin > I simply cannot find using Go

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread James Wall
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> >>> > Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug r

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> > Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: >> > emerge failure will be marked WONTFIX thanks to

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: > > emerge failure will be marked WONTFIX thanks to the 'ricer special' CFLAGS > > The CFLAGS you showed me weren'

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.11.2011 10:27, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > From the description, it should do just that, there may still be > dozens of ebuilds in progress, but only the first few will actually > start compiling. Adding it now. It should also helps when there are > multiple emerge processes running, my desktop

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