On Wednesday 23 May 2007 02:13:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If nothing else the handbook says that Gentoo etiquite says not > to rsync your portage tree more than once a day. For the average > distro, once a week or even once a month is more than sufficient > to keep up with the packages in the main branch.
If you wait more than 30 days between syncs you risk missing messages in package.mask. Packages must be in package.mask for 30 days before being removed from the tree... > I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three > install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before > moving on from there. Err.. what was the purpose of that `emerge -e world` ? (-u and -D does absolutely nothing when used with -e). -- Bo Andresen
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