Mick: > On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:00, Sergio Polini wrote: > > May I undo an emerge --sync? > > Thanks > > Sergio > > No, but wait for a while for the mirrors to refresh themselves and > resync later. Hopefully, what ever package/version you couldn't > download would be updated for synch-ing by then. > > Of course, I'm only liberally interpreting your question to deduce > what the problem might be, because you didn't tell us.
You are right ;-) My problems are: a) my goal is a reasonably updated working system, not one in the latest fashion; b) I had got to two RUWSs, an old Athlon xp (with riva TNT 2) and an HP dv5000z (Turion, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M); -- updating my Athlon system was a mess *before* the new nvidia-legacy-drivers package, so it was worth updating the portage tree, but after the last "emerge --sync" many packages are blocked becasue they want a non-existent media-video/nvidia-glx (?) required (?) by an already installed and working qt-3.3.6-r1; -- my laptop was perfect before modular X, then I ran into inadeguate support (by ATI and Xorg) of my video card. I'm thinking about a "solution": a) a "stable" root partition, including all directories used by portage (/etc, /usr, /var, and..? eventually all but home); b) a "testing" root partition; c) updating the portage tree in the testing partion, always emerging with the --buildpkg option; d) updating the portage tree in the stable partition, and emerging the tbz2files created on the testing partition. only when the testing partition looks stable. Any comments? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
