Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-02 Thread Nils Holland
On 15:41 Tue 01 Feb , Joshua Murphy wrote: > > The trick I've been using for... a couple years now, across various > machines (no cron involved), is syncing one box that shares portage > *and* my distfiles on nfs, portage R/O, distfiles R/W, then when it's > done syncing and starts its own met

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-02 Thread BRM
>From: Peter Humphrey >On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:43:43 BRM wrote: >> And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the >> systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine & >> dandy if that is your process - but it's not mine. I may update my >> laptop twice as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:43:43 BRM wrote: > And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the > systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine & > dandy if that is your process - but it's not mine. I may update my > laptop twice as often as the other two, esp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 31 January 2011 22:26:20 BRM wrote: > "emerge --sync" works fine for your _normal_ portage tree. > But if you are running a mirror on a gentoo system that also needs > its own copy of portage, then you really need to have two portage > trees on the system. One portage tree is hosted by r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Nils Holland
On 18:13 Mon 31 Jan , Dale wrote: > Nils Holland wrote: > > > > In fact, what I always do is sync one of my machines with an official > > Gentoo mirror via "emerge --sync", and then I just use rsync to > > distribute the updated tree to all my other local machines as in: > > > > rsync --d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine& dandy if that is your process - but it's not mine. I may update my laptop twice as often as the other two, especially if I want to play with some software

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 12:20:56 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems... > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: >> >> >>> >>> If the machine is not fast enough - mine is a PII 233 w/160 MB RAM, >>> takes a while do to updates - then you really have to separate out what >>> you are ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: If the machine is not fast enough - mine is a PII 233 w/160 MB RAM, takes a while do to updates - then you really have to separate out what you are hosting from what you are using. Otherwise you end up in the situation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > If the machine is not fast enough - mine is a PII 233 w/160 MB RAM, > takes a while do to updates - then you really have to separate out what > you are hosting from what you are using. Otherwise you end up in the > situation that you have start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > Nils Holland wrote: > > On 21:35 Mon 31 Jan , Francesco Talamona wrote: > >> On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: > >>> I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all > >>> of the parameters are correct > >>> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread Dale
Nils Holland wrote: On 21:35 Mon 31 Jan , Francesco Talamona wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct Why not something proven and reliable like "emerge --sync"?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
On 21:35 Mon 31 Jan , Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: > > I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all > > of the parameters are correct > > Why not something proven and reliable like "emerge --sync"? In fact, what I always do is syn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Francesco Talamona > On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: > > I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all > > of the parameters are correct > > Why not something proven and reliable like "emerge --sync"? > "emerge --sync" works

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: > I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all > of the parameters are correct Why not something proven and reliable like "emerge --sync"? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 30 January 2011, BRM wrote: > A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a > failed hard drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got > destroyed. Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a > new copy of portage like a new install since it was ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge problems

2009-01-05 Thread James Stull
Will do, thanks for your assistance! On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> /etc/portage/packages.use: >> >> dev-java/sun-jdk -doc >> > > Typo. It's "/etc/portage/package.use". You need to "emerge -N world" > after that. > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge problems

2009-01-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: /etc/portage/packages.use: dev-java/sun-jdk -doc Typo. It's "/etc/portage/package.use". You need to "emerge -N world" after that.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge problems

2009-01-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James Stull wrote: What is the best way to block this package? On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:35 AM, pk wrote: James Stull wrote: I switched my eselect profile from a generic gentoo system to desktop. Unfortunately I keep getting this error when I run "emerge -uDNav world" I tried it with the --