On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 17:17:29 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
$ sudo emerge -lp portage
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R] sys-apps/portage-2.2.20.1
What am I doing wrong?
I guess because it's a
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 6:13:30 PM Dale wrote:
Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 10:48:16 AM Dale wrote:
Todd Goodman wrote:
* Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net [150828 18:35]:
150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
On Saturday 29 Aug 2015 04:32:48 Dale wrote:
walt wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:29:20 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat through a
one hour talk that focused mostly on the data model. Once you
understand the data
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 10:48:16 AM Dale wrote:
Todd Goodman wrote:
* Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net [150828 18:35]:
150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
Also, the whole
Todd Goodman wrote:
* Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net [150828 18:35]:
150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
Also, the whole copy-on-write concept and content-hashing concept.
I used to
* Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net [150828 18:35]:
150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
Also, the whole copy-on-write concept and content-hashing concept.
I used to think git looked
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [150829 11:49]:
Todd Goodman wrote:
* Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net [150828 18:35]:
150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
Also, the whole copy-on-write
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 9:53:10 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:35:35 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
So basicly the only change is that instead of:
# less ChangeLog (or whatever you use to read logs)
You'll do:
# git log .
Or if emerge is updated to use
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 5:10:15 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 9:53:10 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:35:35 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
So basicly the only change is that instead of:
# less ChangeLog (or whatever you use to read
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:35:35 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
So basicly the only change is that instead of:
# less ChangeLog (or whatever you use to read logs)
You'll do:
# git log .
Or if emerge is updated to use git too, instead of
emerge -l
you'll use
emerge -l
;-)
--
Neil
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Fernando Rodriguez
frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote:
It's probably easier to do this:
# cd /usr/portage
# rm -r *
# git clone repo-uri .
The only issue with this is that all the files end up being owned by
root. I'd just create /usr/portage, chown
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 2:19:23 PM Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Fernando Rodriguez
frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote:
It's probably easier to do this:
# cd /usr/portage
# rm -r *
# git clone repo-uri .
The only issue with this is that all the files
Todd Goodman wrote:
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [150829 11:49]:
Todd Goodman wrote:
* Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net [150828 18:35]:
150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
Also, the
Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 10:48:16 AM Dale wrote:
Todd Goodman wrote:
* Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net [150828 18:35]:
150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:19 AM, walt w41ter at gmail.com wrote:
Note that /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/Changelog was last updated on
April 6, several months ago.
Rhetorical question: what is the purpose of a Changelog?
Gentoo is no
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:24 AM, James wireless at tampabay.rr.com wrote:
It there an easy, automated way to have this inforation on my system(s)
without extra keystrokes?
Either wait for somebody to provide the old-style changelogs (some
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:24 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
It there an easy, automated way to have this inforation on my system(s)
without extra keystrokes?
Either wait for somebody to provide the old-style changelogs (some
consider this critical, some consider this pointless -
Hello, Rich.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:53:00AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:24 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
It there an easy, automated way to have this inforation on my system(s)
without extra keystrokes?
[ ]
While I do believe the ChangeLogs
walt wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:29:20 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat through a
one hour talk that focused mostly on the data model. Once you
understand the data model, you understand everything. That doesn't
take a
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558800
No big deal now that we can see all the recent changes to ncurses.
Me; I'm just going to wait until Monday, to sync and update.
The problem was that EAPI5 (which is only a year old or so) interacts
walt w41ter at gmail.com writes:
I avoided yesterday's downgrade from ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-5.9-r4
because it was obviously(?) a mistake.
I believe you. But here's what I just experienced::
I syncd a few hours ago. Now when I just went to upgrade I got this
gyration of the latest ncurses
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:24 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
It there an easy, automated way to have this inforation on my system(s)
without extra keystrokes?
Either wait for somebody to provide the old-style changelogs (some
consider
Emanuele Rusconi emarsk at gmail.com writes:
As a user - not specifically a Gentoo user - I only need to know 3 commands:
When I experimented with managing my config files with git I did a lot
of reading (I was new to VCS in general), and in the end I realized
that, although git is really
James, maybe you skimmed over the premise As a user - not
specifically a Gentoo user?
Should I explain its implications?
I was specifically addressing the complaint that you need to be a git
guru just to access the changelogs. You don't. As Rich Freeman already
pointed out, it's really trivial,
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:26 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
I agree with this. But since the Changlog data was a fundamental part
of Gentoo, for a very long time, and the devs wisely chose to upgrade
to git, I would think that this functionality would be provided
via git, at least
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:22 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Surely I can mask off these updates and stay with ::
sys-libs/ncurses- 5.9-r4
For a while, till things settle a bit? Weird. I mask off a version
and a newer, later version appears. wtf?
In your long post you didn't
Hello, Rich.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:41:05PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
I disagree completely. A little time spent on git is time wasted. Only
a lot of time spent on git is useful.
I disagree with this.
git is to
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:45:47PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
There are all sorts of stupidities in it - like `push' and `pull' not
being opposites
That's fair.
`clone' not producing a clone, but a new repository
radically different from the original.
That is not true. It is a clone, just
150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
Also, the whole copy-on-write concept and content-hashing concept.
I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat
through a 1 hr talk that
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
I disagree completely. A little time spent on git is time wasted. Only
a lot of time spent on git is useful.
I disagree with this.
git is to VCSs as assembler is to programming languages. To use either
effectively,
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:45:47PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
I don't want to have to understand the design. I just want to be a
user. I've got enough things competing for limited mental capacity as
it is.
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:29:20 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat through a
one hour talk that focused mostly on the data model. Once you
understand the data model, you understand everything. That doesn't
take a lot of time.
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