On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 04:44:11PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote
> Busybox is installed as part of the system profile on amd64. You can
> install mdev by doing this:
>
> ln -s /bin/busybox /sbin/mdev
The official method is to build busybox with the "mdev" USE flag. That
is the only way that virtua
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On 03/15/2012 07:49 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>>> The gentoo-news repository has moved from subversion to git
>>> some time ago. New news items should be committed to git only,
>>> because the master
So you run set FEATURES=test to run a package's test suite during
keywording. Later, you emerge -vuNDa ... and portage wants to reemerge
that package with USE=-test.
Can't we avoid this somehow? I presume in the vast majority of cases
emerging with FEATURES/USE=test doesn't actually affect what's
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:33:42 -0400
Matt Turner wrote:
> So you run set FEATURES=test to run a package's test suite during
> keywording. Later, you emerge -vuNDa ... and portage wants to reemerge
> that package with USE=-test.
>
> Can't we avoid this somehow? I presume in the vast majority of case
On 18 March 2012 08:33, Matt Turner wrote:
> So you run set FEATURES=test to run a package's test suite during
> keywording. Later, you emerge -vuNDa ... and portage wants to reemerge
> that package with USE=-test.
>
> Can't we avoid this somehow? I presume in the vast majority of cases
> emerging
On 03/17/12 15:43, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 18 March 2012 08:33, Matt Turner wrote:
>> So you run set FEATURES=test to run a package's test suite during
>> keywording. Later, you emerge -vuNDa ... and portage wants to reemerge
>> that package with USE=-test.
>>
>> Can't we avoid this somehow? I pr
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 15:33 -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> So you run set FEATURES=test to run a package's test suite during
> keywording. Later, you emerge -vuNDa ... and portage wants to reemerge
> that package with USE=-test.
>
> Can't we avoid this somehow? I presume in the vast majority of cases
On 03/17/2012 12:51 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> I think the easier solution is to modify portage to ignore changes in
> the "test" USE flag when doing "emerge --newuse".
Yes, that's part of the plan [1] discussed in bug #373209.
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373209#c3
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