[gentoo-dev] information about "F" in 'man emerge'?

[gentoo-dev] information about "F" in 'man emerge'?

[Terje Kvernes]

  how does this look for the text to explain F?  oh, and it would be
  nice to be able to say "postpone F-related packages" via a switch or
  something, they make "emerge -U world" break rather annoyingly and
  await user interaction.

  I'm sorry for not producing a patch, but I'm not exactly sure where
  the emerge documentation source is located.  :-)

 [ebuild F ] media-video/realplayer-8-r6
        The realplayer ebuild requires you to download sources
        manually for it to install the package.  Instructions on how
        and what to download is usually given by the package when you
        attempt to install it.  Please not that currently, portage
        will halt the merge process when it reaches such a package.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] information about "F" in 'man emerge'?

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Monday 28 July 2003 20:37, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>   how does this look for the text to explain F? 

sound good, i updated the manpage in cvs with your description

>   oh, and it would be nice to be able to say "postpone F-related packages"
>   via a switch or something, they make "emerge -U world" break rather
>   annoyingly and await user interaction.

file a bug ;)

>   I'm sorry for not producing a patch, but I'm not exactly sure where
>   the emerge documentation source is located.  :-)

it's in cvs with the rest of the portage package ... gentoo-src/portage/man/ 
... besides, you could have always just done a diff against your local copy 
of the manpage.

- -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] information about "F" in 'man emerge'?

[Terje Kvernes]

Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Monday 28 July 2003 20:37, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>
> > how does this look for the text to explain F? 
> 
> sound good, i updated the manpage in cvs with your description

  thanks!
 
> > oh, and it would be nice to be able to say "postpone F-related
> > packages" via a switch or something, they make "emerge -U world"
> > break rather annoyingly and await user interaction.
> 
> file a bug ;)

  if I find a good solution, I will.  ;-)
 
> > I'm sorry for not producing a patch, but I'm not exactly sure
> > where the emerge documentation source is located.  :-)
> 
> it's in cvs with the rest of the portage package
> ... gentoo-src/portage/man/ ... besides, you could have always just
> done a diff against your local copy of the manpage.

  I wasn't quite expecting that the documentation is actually kept in
  *roff.  :-)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] information about "F" in 'man emerge'?

[Amiel Martin]

heres an idea, in the case of an emerge -U world, instead of postponing
F-related packages, portage could ask for all of them to be downloaded up
front. might require a new variable, but I think that feature would make
emerge world's more smooth.


just my two cents


-AMiel

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Terje Kvernes wrote:


  how does this look for the text to explain F?  oh, and it would be
  nice to be able to say "postpone F-related packages" via a switch or
  something, they make "emerge -U world" break rather annoyingly and
  await user interaction.

  I'm sorry for not producing a patch, but I'm not exactly sure where
  the emerge documentation source is located.  :-)

 [ebuild F ] media-video/realplayer-8-r6
        The realplayer ebuild requires you to download sources
        manually for it to install the package.  Instructions on how
        and what to download is usually given by the package when you
        attempt to install it.  Please not that currently, portage
        will halt the merge process when it reaches such a package.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] information about "F" in 'man emerge'?

[Georgi Georgiev]

On 28/07/2003 at 21:11:52(-0700), Amiel Martin used 1.1K just to say:
> heres an idea, in the case of an emerge -U world, instead of postponing
> F-related packages, portage could ask for all of them to be downloaded up
> front. might require a new variable, but I think that feature would make
> emerge world's more smooth.

Both would be best. For those who do unattended "emerge -U world", postponing
would be better. I personally would prefer to use the "up front" approach,
though.

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