Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports

2005-05-24 Thread David Stanek
This should ease an searching issues as long as the users searching are aware of the new component. But then we'd probably still see a bunch of confused, headless chickens running around squaking "ebuilds, old ebuilds". -- David Stanek www.roninds.net GPG keyID #6272EDAF on http://pg

Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-15 Thread David Stanek
int. If Python is broken then emerge > won't work. The proposed erescue would still work in that case. If erescue is a statically built binary that basically untars a backed up copy of a package, why would it depend on Python? -- David Stanek www.roninds.net GPG keyID #6272EDAF on http

Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-15 Thread David Stanek
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 09:56:54PM -0400, David Stanek wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:12:13PM -0700, John Myers wrote: > > On Sunday 15 May 2005 16:41, david stanek wrote: > > > Add an option to emerge, --backup or something > > > similar, that will automatically ru

Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-15 Thread David Stanek
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:12:13PM -0700, John Myers wrote: > On Sunday 15 May 2005 16:41, david stanek wrote: > > Add an option to emerge, --backup or something > > similar, that will automatically run quickpkg. > > If you set FEATURES="buildpkg", portage auto

Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-15 Thread david stanek
ally linking a version of tar with portage. This way tar cannot be broken. Add an option to emerge, --backup or something similar, that will automatically run quickpkg. Then make a erescue executable that can parse the command line to figure out which package the user wants to be rescued from, and execu

[gentoo-dev] Web application data

2005-05-13 Thread david stanek
application data separate. As a side effect it is easier to do backups and my data between machines. -- David Stanek www.roninds.net GPG keyID #6272EDAF on http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 8BAA 7E11 8856 E148 6833 655A 92E2 3E00 6272 EDAF pgpjRBaQMR1NQ.pgp Description: PGP signature