From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j49KPB0t008339 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 20:25:11 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVEoY-0001xz-EL for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 20:25:18 +0000 Received: (qmail 7127 invoked from network); 9 May 2005 16:24:18 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 9 May 2005 16:24:17 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 16:27:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> <1115154350.889.286.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <200505092212.10787.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200505092212.10787.pauldv@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505091627.28672.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7490cc63-2dfc-4d2a-ae43-f491723c6114 X-Archives-Hash: 4366fa5482996f8b9f25f921c9f21452 On Monday 09 May 2005 04:12 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > What about adding a "panic" mode to portage which, when confronted with a > missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade portage to > the latest version it can find with some default settings that should > allways work. looking ahead that's a good idea but for older portages that doesnt help at all ... the profiles we're talking about here will break when given a cascaded profile -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list