From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from psmtp01.wxs.nl (psmtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.56]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j49KC1E5002224 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 20:12:02 GMT Received: from pavlvs2.devrieze.net (ip51cfc8c3.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.200.195]) by psmtp01.wxs.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j49KCAXO017844 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 22:12:10 +0200 Received: from hex.local.devrieze.net (hex.local.devrieze.net [192.168.1.7]) by pavlvs2.devrieze.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2987810027 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 22:12:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 22:12:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> <200505031449.54237.vapier@gentoo.org> <1115154350.889.286.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1115154350.889.286.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4639660.Sl8FxNex1C"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505092212.10787.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 725745fb-b7dd-4ab3-b68b-4b39a0948918 X-Archives-Hash: ee163b732d701eb5dfe6a216ee6ce857 --nextPart4639660.Sl8FxNex1C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 03 May 2005 23:05, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:49 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:10 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > I think an easier solution would be a portage rescue set of profiles. > > > > afaik the only thing it'd need is a 'make.defaults' and a custom > > 'packages' (where we'd force a newer version of portage of course) > > > > i dont think we even need a set, we could just do it with one ... after > > all, we can stick bash code into make.defaults and have it do something > > ugly like run `uname` or parse make.defaults to figure out the correct > > ARCH > > If you're feeling up to the bash-fu, I was trying to propose something > simple, but this would probably be the best solution. > > So does anyone have any objections yet? ;] What about adding a "panic" mode to portage which, when confronted with a=20 missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade portage to t= he=20 latest version it can find with some default settings that should allways=20 work. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart4639660.Sl8FxNex1C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQBCf8QabKx5DBjWFdsRAlN3AKCSlgMnRXOvA6MbRTx5azADjNLtIQCWNfaW kDMfTe+1p4VDTc9PoBYtog== =UiAM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4639660.Sl8FxNex1C-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list