On Tuesday 03 May 2005 23:05, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:49 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:10 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of profiles. > > > > afaik the only thing it'd need is a 'make.defaults' and a custom > > 'packages' (where we'd force a newer version of portage of course) > > > > i dont think we even need a set, we could just do it with one ... after > > all, we can stick bash code into make.defaults and have it do something > > ugly like run `uname` or parse make.defaults to figure out the correct > > ARCH > > If you're feeling up to the bash-fu, I was trying to propose something > simple, but this would probably be the best solution. > > So does anyone have any objections yet? ;]
What about adding a "panic" mode to portage which, when confronted with a missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade portage to the latest version it can find with some default settings that should allways work. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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