On Sunday 29 June 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
> > Doesn't that give you a huge world file ...
>
> No: of course, I 'emerge -1' when the pkg is not marked 'W/S' in my
> pkg.ref. Currently, 'world' lists 97 pkgs ; pkg.ref lists 513
> pkgs.
OK, that would work.
I suppose I don't stand much chance o
080629 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Doesn't that give you a huge world file ...
No: of course, I 'emerge -1' when the pkg is not marked 'W/S' in my pkg.ref.
Currently, 'world' lists 97 pkgs ; pkg.ref lists 513 pkgs.
> ... and no easy way to identify redundant and unused libs?
This is clear when a
On Sunday 29 June 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
> Anyway, I continue to recommend my own approach to everyone,
> while knowing full well they (like me) will go on in their own way
> (grin).
Doesn't that give you a huge world file and no easy way to identify
redundant and unused libs?
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On Saturday 28 June 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
> > your manually maintained log is entirely redundant if you emerge
> > Genlop
>
> How so ? -- the site given by 'eix genlop' simply goes on re Perl.
emerge genlop.
When it runs it essentially parses /var log/emerge.log and gives output
like so:
080628 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:57:05 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> the problem with 'emerge world' (without '-p') is
>> the user hands over control of his machine to an unreliable automaton,
> No one has ever suggested that you run emerge world without -p or -a.
> Damage caused
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:57:05 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> No, the problem with 'emerge world' (without '-p') is
> that the user hands over control of his machine to an unreliable
> automaton,
No one has ever suggested that you run emerge world without -p or -a.
Damage caused by using a tool badly
080628 Philip Webb wrote:
> I've been doing it this way for nearly 8 years
Of course, I mean nearly 5 years .
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080628 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:53:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 'emerge world' is the source of many problems regularly reported here.
> No, it's changing package versions that breaks a working system,
> whether this is a result of running 'emerge world'
> or updating the gu
Grant wrote:
|> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure
|> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently
|> turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem.
|
| yeah, mixing isn't good. Pure systems are way more stable.
Now that's an interest
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote on 28/06/08 14:12:
so, have you asked to become its maintainer to fix the bugs?
Lacking the necessary skills, no.
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:50:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Do you think I might have swung from being waay too verbose to
> being waay too brief?
Do you want the long answer or the short answer? ;-)
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:53:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 'emerge world' is the source of many problems regularly reported here.
No, it's changing package versions that breaks a working system, whether
this is a result of running emerge world or updating the guilty package
individually is irreleva
so, have you asked to become its maintainer to fix the bugs?
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Alan McKinnon wrote on 28/06/08 08:54:
The ~x86 branch seems to have settled into not-so-cutting-edge anymore,
quite similar to what other distros release - Ubuntu for examples.
x86 seems to be taking it's lead lately from Debian :-)
Would it were so!
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On 28 Jun 2008, at 03:47, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I
use pure
> |> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had
recently
> |> turned out to be
On Saturday 28 June 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
> 'emerge world' is the source of many problems regularly reported
> here.
Do you mean 'emerge world ' as opposed to the much more
sensible 'emerge -p world', examine output for problems, consider each
update, examine USE flag changes for impact, reso
080628 William Kenworthy top-posted (ugh!):
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:41 -0700, Grant wrote:
>> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day
>> and every time I try to do something new it doesn't work.
>> Anybody else experiencing that lately?
> My Gentoo systems get this way for one of tw
On Friday 27 June 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:16 -0700, Grant wrote:
> > I think you're right Brian. Of course, this is nobody's fault but
> > mine for using ~amd64 packages, but I only pull those in if I feel
> > I "have to". Quite a few of them now though. Does it se
On Friday 27 June 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:01:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every
> > > time I try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else
> > > experiencing that lately?
> >
> > No.
>
> How can yo
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > |> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use
> pure
> > |> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had
> recently
> > |> turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem.
> > |
> > | yeah, m
My Gentoo systems get this way for one of two reasons:
Some config files get overwritten (make.conf was one time ) by accident
and a few packages get installed with the wrong build settings causing
random grief
system inconsistency, mainly with libraries. revdep-rebuild may or may
not help - if
On Friday 27 June 2008, Grant wrote:
> > |> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use
> > |> pure ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had
> > |> recently turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem.
> > |
> > | yeah, mixing isn't good. Pure systems are
> |> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure
> |> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently
> |> turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem.
> |
> | yeah, mixing isn't good. Pure systems are way more stable.
Now that's an interesting id
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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
| On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
|> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure
|> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently
|> turned out to be a
On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:16 -0700, Grant wrote:
> > I think you're right Brian. Of course, this is nobody's fault but
> > mine for using ~amd64 packages, but I only pull those in if I feel I
> > "have to". Quite a few of them now though. Does it
b.n. wrote:
Grant ha scritto:
Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
that lately?
- Grant
Yes. Looks like my Gentoo box is rotting these days, but most probably
it's me not having time at all t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
>
After almost 8 months withtou an upgrade, I finally decided to go on
with
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:01:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> > try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> > that lately?
>
> No.
How can you be so certain that not one of the thousands of Gentoo
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:16 -0700, Grant wrote:
> I think you're right Brian. Of course, this is nobody's fault but
> mine for using ~amd64 packages, but I only pull those in if I feel I
> "have to". Quite a few of them now though. Does it seem like ~arch
> packages have been more difficult la
Grant ha scritto:
Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
that lately?
- Grant
Yes. Looks like my Gentoo box is rotting these days, but most probably
it's me not having time at all to iron out ev
> Grant,
>
> I've had a lot of problems lately upgrading ~arch and masked packages. This
> is expected (obviously) but 99% of the time I am able to fix them myself
> without going through support resources.
>
> If you're using any that are ~arch and in packages.mask perhaps that is why
> you're hav
Grant,
I've had a lot of problems lately upgrading ~arch and masked packages. This
is expected (obviously) but 99% of the time I am able to fix them myself
without going through support resources.
If you're using any that are ~arch and in packages.mask perhaps that is why
you're having problems t
On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Grant wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
>
> - Grant
a botched gcc-upgrade/clean cycle damaged gcc beyond repair - but that was
easily solved
Grant wrote:
Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
that lately?
- Grant
Rock solid.
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On Friday 27 June 2008, Grant wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
No.
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Hello
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:41:00PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
On the contrary. But it may be because I finally got little time to look
at all
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
>
> - Grant
Not at all for me Grant.
- Mark
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Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
that lately?
- Grant
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