Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:41:35 +0100 Alex Schuster wrote: > Zeerak Waseem writes: > > > I have some questions about sets: > > 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, > > right? > There are other kind of sets, for example, dynamic ones, from the output of a given comm

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 1/5/2010 12:53 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: Ah well, having the sets in the wrong place would give me an error. And regarding portage version, weren't sets included in v. 2.x.x? My portage version is 2.1.7.16, anything above seems to be hardmasked... No, sets appear start

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 1/5/2010 12:53 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: Ah well, having the sets in the wrong place would give me an error. And regarding portage version, weren't sets included in v. 2.x.x? My portage version is 2.1.7.16, anything above seems to be hardmasked... No, sets appear starting in portage v2.2. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:53:13 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: > >> 3) With set files in /usr/portage/sets and running "emerge -u @foo" > >> portage yields that @foo isn't a valid package atom, any idea why > >> this is? > > > > Your portage is too old? In case of an error, you should get an > > "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:41:35 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Zeerak Waseem writes: I have some questions about sets: 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, right? I think it's /etc/portage/sets instead. And there are also meta-sets like system, world, module-re

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Zeerak Waseem writes: > I have some questions about sets: > 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, > right? I think it's /etc/portage/sets instead. And there are also meta-sets like system, world, module-rebuild, preserved-rebuild and more, defined in /usr/share/

[gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Hey guys, I have some questions about sets: 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, right? 2) Can a set be included in the world file? 3) With set files in /usr/portage/sets and running "emerge -u @foo" portage yields that @foo isn't a valid package atom, any i