On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:33:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I'm an old fart, set in my ways, I found something long ago that works
> for me with unsufficient pain to provoke a change.
I clearly have a lower pain threshold than you :(
> So I ain't changin' :-)
Good thing it's an option then ;-)
On 10/06/2014 20:29, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:06:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>>> What's not to like? Do you like a long emerge list aborting as soon as
>>> you turn your back because of a missing patch file in a minor package?
>>
>> Yes, exactly. For two reasons:
>>
>> 1.
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:06:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > What's not to like? Do you like a long emerge list aborting as soon as
> > you turn your back because of a missing patch file in a minor package?
>
> Yes, exactly. For two reasons:
>
> 1. In the vast majority of cases, there's somethin
On 10/06/2014 16:27, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:35:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> I know about --keep-going, I don't like it much.
>
> What's not to like? Do you like a long emerge list aborting as soon as
> you turn your back because of a missing patch file in a minor pac
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:35:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I know about --keep-going, I don't like it much.
What's not to like? Do you like a long emerge list aborting as soon as
you turn your back because of a missing patch file in a minor package?
--
Neil Bothwick
How is it that we put man
On 10/06/2014 12:36, thegeezer wrote:
>> +1 to just letting portage work with world.
>> >
>> > What I have found useful when trying to do what Alan is attempting, is
>> > to select a chunk of packages at a time (like say all of kde, then a
>> > bunch of daemons). If I get a block, drop it and try t
On 06/09/2014 10:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 09/06/2014 21:15, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>> Am Montag, 9. Juni 2014, 13:28:03 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
>>> Hi, Gentoo!
>>>
>>> The latest episode of my months long update saga.
>>>
>> [snip]
>>> This all seems crazy. Keeping Gentoo up to date sho
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:04:30 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > You are making it artificially complicated by doing it piecewise.
> > Whenever you try to update only part of your tree, emerge cannot do
> > changes anywhere else, which means that other stuff can block your
> > intended changes.
>
>
Hi Alan,
first of all, which portage version are you using? Even if you are otherwise
always running a stable system, in this case it might be useful to update
portage (only) to ~arch. The errors that you are seeing are in an area of the
dependency resolver that people are actively working on
Hi, Andreas.
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:15:48PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Montag, 9. Juni 2014, 13:28:03 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> > Hi, Gentoo!
> > The latest episode of my months long update saga.
> [snip]
> > This all seems crazy. Keeping Gentoo up to date shouldn't be this
> >
On 09/06/2014 21:15, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Montag, 9. Juni 2014, 13:28:03 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
>> Hi, Gentoo!
>>
>> The latest episode of my months long update saga.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> This all seems crazy. Keeping Gentoo up to date shouldn't be this
>> difficult.
>
> You are making it
Am Montag, 9. Juni 2014, 13:28:03 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> Hi, Gentoo!
>
> The latest episode of my months long update saga.
>
[snip]
>
> This all seems crazy. Keeping Gentoo up to date shouldn't be this
> difficult.
You are making it artificially complicated by doing it piecewise. Whenever y
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:28:03 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> emerge -p --color y util-linux | less -F
>
> , and get the following on my screen:
>
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2 [2.22.2]
> USE="bash-completion%* pam%* python%* -caps% -cytune% -fdformat%
> -tty-helpers%" PY
Hi, Gentoo!
The latest episode of my months long update saga.
I do
emerge -p --color y util-linux | less -F
, and get the following on my screen:
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2 [2.22.2]
USE="bash-completion%* pam%* python%* -caps% -cytune% -fdformat% -tty-helpers%"
PY
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